Type of Book: Fantasy
Title: The Golden Compass
Author's Name: Philip Pullman
Illustrator's Name: None
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Number of Pages: 351
Main Characters: Lyra, Ms Coulter, Lord Asriel, Rodger, Iorek the Bear, The Gyptians, Sefafina Pekkula

Setting: The story took place in another world's Oxford in the beginning, and then in the far north at the end. The story was over a couple of months.

Summary of Story: Lyra is a young girl living at Jordan College. One day she goes into the Retiring Room and hears about a special kind of particle. At the same time children are starting to disappear. Lyra's friend Rodger is taken. Lyra meets woman named Ms. Coulter. Ms. Coulter asks her to be her personal helper. Before she leaves with Ms. Coulter the master of Jordan College gives her a alethiometer (alethio = truth). As Lyra worked for Ms. Coulter she began to realize that she was more then just a helper. She runs away and the Gyptians take her to the far north There she discovers some important facts about her family. In the north she knows that she must free the children from their captor. To do this she has to go through the harsh north and face challenges she would have never encountered if she was the girl she was before.

This book was excellent

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