1946- <br/><br/>
The golden compass / 
by Philip Pullman 
 - First Edition 
 - New York, NY  Alfred A. Knopf  1996 
 - 399 pages 
 - His dark materials  bk. 1 .
<br/><br/> Accompanied by her shape-shifting daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0679879242 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Missing persons--Fiction<br/>Experiments--Fiction<br/>Kidnapping--Fiction<br/>Arctic Regions--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Fantasy Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Fic