![]() Readers will love comparing and contrasting the differences between Lyra's world with that of late nineteenth century England. Stalwart teachers will claim this tumultuous fantasy for a novel study, filled as it is with wonderful technological (though fictional) inventions and scientific wonders in an alternate England. Coulter befriends Lyra and accompanies her to the far north where Lyra hopes to discover more about the phenomena called Dust that appears near the Northern Lights and may be part of another parallel world. The glamorous and seductively dangerous Mrs. ![]() She seeks to find out why children, including her best friend, Roger, a boy who works in the kitchen, are being kidnapped by Gobblers all over England. When Lyra and Pantalaimon thwart a murder attempt on her uncle, Lord Asriel, by one of the scholars at Oxford, she is drawn into a spiral of danger. Lyra's daemon is Pantalaimon who can transform himself at will into an ermine, a mouse, or even a moth. In this parallel world to ours, everyone has a daemon attached to them always-a sort of alter ego in animal form. Twelve-year-old orphan Lyra Belacqua lives at Oxford University's Jordan College, where she has managed to avoid being educated by the scholars who look after her and runs wild. ![]()
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