Philip Pullman
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His dark materials volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
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Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.
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His dark materials volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Accompanied by her 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.
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His dark materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted underworld-Citt?gazze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: 12-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will discover an object of devastating power. And with every step, they move closer to...
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Book of dust volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Description
When Malcolm finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust, he finds himself embroiled in a tale of intrigue featuring enforcement agents from the Magisterium, a woman with an evil monkey daemon, and a baby named Lyra.
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Sally Lockhart quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
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Sally Lockhart quartet volume 3
Pub. Date
1997, c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Description
In London in 1881, twenty-four-year old Sally finds her young daughter and her possessions assailed by an unknown enemy, while a shadowy figure known as the Tzaddik involves her in his plot to defraud and exploit the hordes of Jewish immigrants pouring into the country.
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The book of Dust volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Description
When Malcolm finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust, he finds himself embroiled in a tale of intrigue featuring enforcement agents from the Magisterium, a woman with an evil monkey daemon, and a baby named Lyra.
9) I was a rat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.
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Sally Lockhart quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
1997, c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation called North Star.
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Upon its hardcover publication, renowned author Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ provoked heated debates and stirred a frenzy of controversy throughout the clerical and literary worlds alike with its bold retelling of the life of Jesus Christ. In this remarkable piece of fiction, famously atheistic author Philip Pullman challenges the events of the Gospels and puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the...
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Series
Book of dust volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 30
Description
"The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue's youth are long behind her--or so she thought. Lyra is now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College and intrigue is swirling around her once more. Her daemon Pantalaimon is witness to a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry echoes from their past. The more Lyra is drawn into these mysteries, the less...
13) Serpentine
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Pub. Date
2020
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Lyra and Pan journey to the far North once more, seeking advice from the Consul of Witches. A short story that takes place after the events of "The amber spyglass."
This companion to His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust offers a tantalizing new glimpse of Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon. The world-changing events of The Amber Spyglass are behind them, and Lyra and Pan find themselves utterly changed as well. In Serpentine, they journey to the...
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His dark materials volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 4
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In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg.
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Adventures of John Blake volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Trapped in the mists of time by a terrible research experiment gone wrong, John Blake and his mysterious ship are doomed to sail between the centuries, searching for a way home. In the ocean of the modern day, John rescues a shipwrecked young girl his own age, Serena, and promises to help.
Author
Series
La Materia Oscura volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Accompanied by her 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.
Acompañada de su demonio, Lyra Belacqua se propone evitar que su mejor amiga y otros niños secuestrados sean objeto de horribles experimentos en el extremo norte.
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Pub. Date
20190604
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Description
An instant "New York Times" bestseller, now in paperback. Renowned storyteller Pullman returns to the parallel world of Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials for a thrilling and epic adventure--a work in three parts--in which daemons, alethiometers, and the Magisterium all play a part. Illustrations.
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Presents Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, in which Lyra and Will, two orphaned children from different worlds, discover objects that give them insight into truth and wisdom and find themselves at the heart of the final war between the Authority and Lord Asriel. Includes additional material by Pullman after each book.
20) Paradise lost
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A retelling of the biblical story of mankind's fall from grace. Milton's epic opens shortly after the dramatic expulsion of Satan and his army of angels from Heaven. What follows is a cosmic battle between good and evil that ranges across vast, splendid tracts of time and space, from the wild abyss of Chaos and the fiery lake of Hell to the Gate of Heaven and God's newly created paradise, the Garden of Eden. Controversy still swirls around Milton's...