num_pages: 332
description: Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on the run, determined to discover the truth about the father he has never known.Then Will steps through a window into another world - the dangerous world of Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres haunt the streets, and a strange, savage girl called Lyra Silvertongue is searching for Dust. Their meeting is no accident, for his mission and hers are linked in an extraordinary way. Together they must reach the mysterious tower, Torre degli Angeli, to find a powerful and secret object that people from many worlds would kill to possess...
language: English
title: The Subtle Knife
titlecomplete: The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
characters: Stanislaus Grumman, Lee Scoresby, Lyra Belacqua, Marisa Coulter, Hester, Serafina Pekkala, Pantalaimon, Mary Malone, Will Parry
genres: Fiction, Steampunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook
ratings_count: 426638
series: His Dark Materials
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Audie Award
category: Children's Titles Ages 8-12, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: North East Teenage Book Award
publisher: Scholastic