num_pages: 341
description: Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on his own, on the run, determined to discover the truth about his father disappearance.Then Will steps through a window in the air into another world, and finds himself with a companion - a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she has a mission which she intends to carry out at all costs.But the world of Cittàgazze is a strange and unsettling place. Deadly, soul-eating Spectres stalk in its streets, while high above, the wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. And in the mysterious Torre degli Angeli lurks Cittàgazze's most important secret - an object which people from many worlds would kill to posses.
language: English
title: The Subtle Knife
titlecomplete: The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
characters: Lyra Belacqua, Stanislaus Grumman, Marisa Coulter, Mary Malone, Serafina Pekkala, Lee Scoresby, Will Parry, Hester, Pantalaimon
genres: Audiobook, Middle Grade, Childrens, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Steampunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 426611
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 Point