num_pages: 399
description: When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. The ensuing quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies - and where a team of scientists is conducting experiments too horrible to be spoken about.Lyra overcomes these strange terrors, only to find something yet more perilous waiting for her - something with consequences which may even reach beyond the Northern Lights...
language: English
title: Northern Lights
titlecomplete: Northern Lights
characters: Lord Asriel, Lyra Belacqua, Billy Costa, John Faa, Roger Parslow, Farder Coram, Marisa Coulter, Iorek Byrnison, Serafina Pekkala, Lee Scoresby, Hester, Pantalaimon, Iofur Raknison
genres: Middle Grade, Audiobook, Childrens, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Steampunk, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 1487719
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
publisher: Scholastic Point