Northern Lights - Northern Lights  (English, Paperback, Pullman Philip)

In a fantasy-version of our world, humans control daemons in the form of animals. A young girl and her daemon begin a fight against a villain who plans to use children in fatal experiments in Northern Lights, the first book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials fantasy series.

Summary of the Book

Eleven year old Lyra Pullman is a student at Jordan College, Oxford. The world she lives in is very much like our own, except for the fact that humans are accompanied by unique daemons. Lyra’s daemon, Pantalaimon is her only companion since the airship crash which cost her parents their lives. Lyra believes that her uncle, Lord Asriel, is as respectable a man as society assumes. When she discovers that he is plotting to use children in a nefarious experiment involving their daemons, she sets off on an adventure that will test her control over her powers and her will to survive once and for all.

About Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman is a British writer, best known for his fantasy novels, and the fictionalized biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

The above title was adapted into a movie entitled The Golden Compass, starring Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Tom Courtenay, Christopher Lee, Nicole Kidman and Sam Elliot, winning a BAFTA and an Academy Award for visual effects.

Series Reading Order

This story continues in The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.