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The golden compass / Philip Pullman ; illustrated by Chris Wormell.

Pullman, Philip, 1946- (author.). Wormell, Christopher, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the far North.

"An over-sized, lavishly illustrated, full-color edition of Philip Pullman's beloved classic. Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass has been changing the world for twenty-five years. We are delighted to offer this new edition of the classic, with more than 100 full-color illustrations from acclaimed illustrator Chris Wormell. A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, The Golden Compass is the story of Lyra and her dæmon familiar and their dangerous journey to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule, and where her fearsome uncle is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world... Fans and newcomers alike will be drawn into the story as never before by Wormell's thrilling illustrations." -- Amazon.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593377710
ISBN: 0593377710
Physical Description: 283 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Edition: First American [illustrated] edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]
Copyright: ©1995

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published in Great Britain by Scholastic UK in 2020."--Title page verso.
Target Audience Note:	GN420L Lexile Decoding demand: 94 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 64 (high) Structure demand: 86 (very high) Lexile