#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “UNPUTDOWNABLE.”—The Washington Post • An Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel • A Newsweek Top 100 Book of All Time • The Inspiration for the HBO Original Series His Dark MaterialsDON’T MISS THE EPIC FINALE TO LYRA’S STORY: THE ROSE FIELD, AVAILABLE NOW!The spellbinding sequel to the modern fantasy classic The Golden Compass.“The story gallops with ferocious momentum . . . Devilishly inventive.”—The New York Times Book ReviewLost in a new world, Lyra finds Will—a boy on the run, a murderer—a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels.
Each is searching—Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father—but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together . . . until they are split apart.
Look for the modern fantasy classics of HIS DARK MATERIALS:The Golden Compass • The Subtle Knife • The Amber Spyglass
And Lyra’s adventures continue in THE BOOK OF DUST:La Belle Sauvage • The Secret Commonwealth • The Rose Field
On sale: September 10, 2002
Age: 10 and up
Grade: Grade 5 & Up
Page count: 368 Pages
ISBN: 9780375823466
Reading level: Lexile: 890L | Fountas/Pinnell: Z
Philip Pullman is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (
The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and
The Amber Spyglass), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by
Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by
Entertainment Weekly. He is also the author of another trilogy set in the same world, The Book of Dust (
La Belle Sauvage, The Secret Commonwealth, and
The Rose Field) as well as numerous other much-loved novels, a collection of fairy tales, and a volume of essays and speeches on writing. He has won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread (now Costa) Award, Parents’ Choice Gold Awards, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Pullman was knighted for services to literature in the New Years Honours 2019. He lives in Oxford, England.
"More than fulfilling the promise of The Golden Compass, this second volume starts off at a heart-thumping pace and never slows down....The grandly exuberant storytelling is sure to enthrall."--
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The intricacy of the plot is staggering...There is no doubt that the work is stunningly ambitious, original, and fascinating."--
The Horn Book (starred review)
"The character development as well as the relentless pace...make this a resoundingly successful sequel...it will leave readers desperate for the next installment."--
Booklist (starred review)
