• Once Upon a Time in the North

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    Once Upon a Time in the North (His Dark Materials, companion novel)
    Philip Pullman
    Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2008
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN: 0375845100
    112 pages

    Synopsis

    In his younger years that we’ve seen him previously in the His Dark Materials trilogy, aeronaut Lee Scoresby is a young adventurer ready to take on the world. He’s just won his balloon in a card match, and he takes it wherever the wind blows. These particular winds land him in the Arctic, on a secluded island known as Novy Odense.

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    Lyra’s Oxford

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    Lyra’s Oxford (His Dark Materials, companion novel)
    Philip Pullman
    Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2007
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0375843698
    64 pages

    Synopsis

    A few years beyond where the His Dark Materials trilogy leaves off, this companion book starts. Lyra, now in her early teens, lives and studies at the college and still has the indomitable spirit prone to mischief and trouble.

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