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__The Golden Compass__ by Philip Pullman **NEXT**

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Synopsis //**The Golden Compass**// forms the first part of a story in three volumes. The first volume is set in a world like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set partly in the world we know. The third moves between many worlds. In //**The Golden Compass,**// readers meet for the first time 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford, England. It quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own - nor is her world. In Lyra's world, everyone has a personal dæmon, a lifelong animal familiar. This is a world in which science, theology and magic are closely intertwined. ...from __The Gold Compass: His Dark Materials__ Random House Publishers' site about Philip Pullman http://www.randomhouse.com/features/pullman/books/golden_compass.html