Philip Pullman
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 1
Publisher
distributed by Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Publisher
Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Book of dust volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Laurel-Leaf
Language
English
Description
In London in 1881, twenty-four-year-oldly 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.
Author
Series
Book of dust volume 2
Publisher
This is a Borzoi book, Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old college undergraduate Lyra is once again thrown together with Malcom Polstead, now a professor, after Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, receive secrets from a dying man about a daemon-haunted city and the origins of Dust.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the tale of a poor tailor's son who becomes a wealthy prince with the help of a magic lamp he finds in an enchanted cave. Philip Pullman garnered every accolade around with the breathtaking His Dark Materials trilogy. Now he turns his storytelling gifts to one of the most famous of the Arabian Nights tales, Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp. Aladdin is a shiftless good-for-nothing boy until he unwittingly acquires a magic lamp inhabited by a...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armored 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.
Author
Series
Adventures of John Blake volume 1
Publisher
David Fickling books, Graphix
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
John Blake and his mysterious ship are doomed to sail between centuries and when he meets a shipwrecked girl named Serena he promises to help get her back to her time, but first they must stop the sinister and powerful Dahlberg Corporation.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Benny Kaminsky leads a rag-tag gang of neighborhood children as they use improbable disguises and crazy ruses while investigating such crimes as counterfeiting and stolen silver in 1894 London.