The Golden Compass -- Philip Pullman

<p><b><b><i>HIS DARK MATERIALS </i>IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA </b> <p/>The modern fantasy classic that <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and <i>Newsweek </i>hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time." Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach.</b> <p/>Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steall--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. <p/>Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is <i>Lyra</i> a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. <p/>But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other... <p/>A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning <i>The Golden Compass</i> is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with <i>The Subtle Knife</i> and <i>The Amber Spyglass.</i> <p/><b>A #1 <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b><br><b>Winner of the<i> Guardian</i> Prize for Children's Fiction</b><br><b>Published in 40 Countries</b> <p/>Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years. --<i>The Washington Post </i> <p/>Very grand indeed. <i>--The New York Times <p