She also comes to learn the depths that people can sink to in their own depraved quests for truth and power. In her att empts to find and save Roger, Lyra meets incredible allies like Lord Faa, Ma Costa, and the armored bear Iofur. She decides that she must find a way to save him and that is her main goal from then on. Lyra mostly treats it as a fairy tale until her best friend Roger is taken by them. Children are being stolen away by the “gobblers”, but no one knows who they are or why they want children. Coulter, there is an outbreak of kidnappings in the town. A dark mystery in a dangerous worldĪt the same time that Lyra leaves with Mrs. As to how it works and what it actually does, she’ll have to work that out on her own. He tells her it belongs to her and that she should keep it secret and safe. Before she leaves Jordan, the Master (think Dean) gives her a mysterious golden compass-like device that tells the truth. Coulter and leaves Jordan College for the first time as her assistant for a supposed trip north. As a reward he allows her to secretly stay and overhear a presentation about his trip north and his discoveries about the mysterious substance, Dust, and a beautiful shining city in the northern sky.Īfter Lord Asriel leaves the college again things begin changing fast for Lyra.

This all changes when she saves her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel from being poisoned. A ward of the college, no one really watches over her and she lives like a heathen with the servant, town, and gypsy children as her only real influences. A young girl who has basically been raised wild at Jordan College in Oxford, England. A fantastic adventure begins in The Golden Compass Join me in part one of a three-part exploration of His Dark Materials. The trilogy His Dark Materials, of which The Golden Compass is the first novel, is now a series on HBO Max and is currently in its third season, so it felt like the right time to journey back to where it all began. I bought my copy from a book order in the third grade and I have read it… more than twenty-seven times! Something about this fantasy world where people have daemons and polar bears can talk caught my eight-year-old imagination and still hasn’t let go of it.

The Golden Compass ( Northern Lights outside the US) by Philip Pullman has been a favorite book of mine for literally twenty-seven years.

His dark materials books in order