THE GOLDEN COMPASS

AWARDS OF THE BOOK

• Carnegie medal
• Guardian children’s fictional prize
• Clip Carnegie medal

AWARDS OF THE AUTHOR

• The first award that the author won was the Carnegie Medal
• The second Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
• Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
• Nestlé Smarties Book Prize
• Costa Book of the Year
• CILIP Carnegie Medal

The author of this book was born in Norwich in 1946. He is 71 years old. He went to school in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia
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SETTING

• Oxford, Lyra’s home and the location of the collage she lives in and her best friend lives there also.
• Bolvangar, where the missing children get taken to.
• Svalbard, home of Lorek brynision.

MAIN CHARACTERS

• Lyra(can read the golden compass)
• Pantalaimon (lyra’s daemon)
• Iorek Brynison(in contract with Lyra)

Introduction
Lyra is sneaking into a collage when her uncle walks in. She is sitting there, but when he leaves, a stranger comes in and tries to poison her uncle.

Rising action
Sometime at night, Lyra’s friend is kidnaped. Lyra must find out who took her friend.

Climax
Lyra goes to a town and meets a guy with a blimp. She also meets an ice bear that is binded with her.

Falling action
Lyra finds her friend and almost loses her connection in dust do pan. She finds out who her mom really was.

Conclusion
Lyra decided that dust must be good, not bad. She crosses the bridge after Lord Asriel.

Summary
Lyra Belacqua lives in a parallel world in which human souls take the form of lifelong animal companions called daemons. Dark forces are at work in the girl's world, and many children have been kidnapped by beings known as Gobblers. Lyra vows to save her best friend, Roger, after he disappears too. She sets out with her daemon, a tribe of seafarers, a witch, an ice bear and a Texas airman on an epic quest to rescue Roger and save her world.

Theme
The theme of this book is that even the most normal people can turn out, to be the most important person in the world. When it starts out, she is just a normal child. Then, she gets adopted by someone terrible and finds the althometer, or golden compass, that can tell you anything you want to know. She ends up deciding the fate of the world.

This story is worthy of the reader’s time because it is interesting, has adventure, and adds suspense. However, as good as the book is, it should do a better job of introducing the characters. And, as soon as the book starts, it is really confusing. It just starts with lyra breaking in and It is hard to understand.