Posts Tagged ‘witches’
The Graveyard Book
HarperCollins, 2008
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0060530928
320 pages
Newbery Award Winner
Synopsis
Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is like any normal boy his age, except that he’s been raised by a graveyard full of ghosts. When he was just a baby, the man Jack was sent to murder him and his family, but Bod solely escaped. Largely taken care of by a guardian who exists neither within the living or the dead, Bod has to navigate a mysterious and different world than most people, and as a result, growing up can be difficult at times. As he hits his teenage years, he must decide what to do once the man Jack knows his whereabouts again. …
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Lyra’s Oxford
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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The Golden Compass – Film
New Line Cinema, 2007
Fantasy
ASIN: B00005JPNY
Synopsis
In a parallel earth, all people have their own personal daemon a physical manifestation of their soul in animal form. Trouble seems to be brewing in this world, and there’s talk about this invisible material called Dust. Thinking this as the link to original sin, the scientists of experimental theology are trying to find a way to rid people of it, even going as far as separating them from their daemons, essentially ripping them from their souls. …
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