num_pages: 9
description: Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.
language: English
title: Northern Lights
titlecomplete: Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1)
characters: Serafina Pekkala, Hester, Lyra Belacqua, Lee Scoresby, Lord Asriel, Roger Parslow, John Faa, Billy Costa, Marisa Coulter, Pantalaimon, Farder Coram, Iofur Raknison, Iorek Byrnison
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Classics, Childrens, Fantasy, Audiobook, Steampunk
ratings_count: 1488003
places: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, Svalbard, Spitsbergen
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