Lyra is a 12yo orphan living in Jordan College, one of the most influencial of Oxford's colleges in a parallel universe where the soul of human beings is physically embodied as an changing-shape animal called dæmon.
When her best friend Roger is kidnapped by the mysterious Gobblers, she swears to rescue him and enters in a quest which will unexpectedly lead her to the Far North, where her uncle Lord Asriel, a man she fears but also hugely admires, is retained as a
prisonner by armoured bears on behalf of the powerful Church.
In this quest she will travel through parallel universes with her dæmon Pantalaimon and will eventually meet Will, a boy of her age who's looking for his missing father and who is incidently on the run after he
accidentally killed a man. They'll have to unite to reach their respective goals and avoid all their opponents, ranging from the powerful Mrs. Coulter to the churchmen and armed forces feeling very anxious about a mysterious susbstance known as Dust.
Luckily, they will also be helped by many allies, including an outcast bear, an aeronaut, a scientist, witch queens and Gyptians tribes. But will they eventually unlock the mysteries of Dust?
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