num_pages: 399
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: The Golden Compass
titlecomplete: The Golden Compass (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: 1487682
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: Knopf