Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored polar bears rule. North is where the Gobblers take the children they steal—including her friend Roger. And North is where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to another world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This one can! For Lyra is a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could ever desire. What Lyra doesn’t know is that helping one of them…will require her to betray the other.

A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman’s award-winning novel is the first in the His Dark Materials trilogy, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.