Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar, Pantalaimon, always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her into the heart of a terrible struggle to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar, Pantalaimon, always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her into the heart of a terrible struggle to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
