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Contemporary writer Philip Pullman depicts a fantasy world in which there are Scientists and Gulpers, plasterers and armoured bears, witches and rocky soils. And the human soul - its dæmon - is always there in the form of an animal... Twelve-year-old Lyra Belakwa lives in Oxford with her dæmon Panteleimon. Her uncle, Lord Asriel, comes to Jordan College to organise an expedition to the North, because that's where the pictures with the mysterious Dust were taken. After that, everything goes wrong: children start to be kidnapped in the city, and it is rumoured that they are being sent to the North...