description: 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.
language: English
title: Northern Lights
titlecomplete: Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1)
characters: Iofur Raknison, Roger Parslow, Serafina Pekkala, Farder Coram, Billy Costa, Iorek Byrnison, Hester, John Faa, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Marisa Coulter, Lyra Belacqua, Lee Scoresby
genres: Adventure, Classics, Fantasy, Childrens, Steampunk, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 1487941
places: Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
series: His Dark Materials
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Audie Award
category: Children's Titles, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Carnegie Medal
publisher: BBC Consumer Publishing