Pullman, Philip <br/><br/>
The golden compass / 
by Philip Pullman. 
 - New York, NY :  Alfred A. Knopf,  2002. 
 - p.  cm. 
 - His dark materials: bk. 1 .
<br/><br/> Summary: Accompanied by her demon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the Far North. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-679-89310-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Missing persons--Experiments--Fiction<br/>Kidnapping--Fiction<br/>Arctic regions--Fiction<br/>Fantasy