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Sarah August 7, 2008 The Golden Compass

//The Golden Compass// is an excellent book. I highly recommend it. It was a little slow in the beginning, but it ended up being a really wonderful novel. It has a fantastic plot and characters. I was really interested at the end because it is really shocking and exciting. //The Golden Compass// is about a girl named Lyra. She goes on an adventure with her daemon Pantalaimon, an animal. He can change into any kind of animal he wants and he and Lyra are connected. Also, there are “The Gobblers” who are a group of people who kidnap children and take them to the north to an experimental station. So, when they take Lyra’s best friend, Roger, she travels north to find him. The north is dangerous and freezing cold. Also there, there are huge armored bears, and even a secret bridge to another world. She uses the help of an alethiometer, a truth measurer which it tells her anything about everything. It is creative and will captures its readers attention with its adventurous and fantastical tales. I loved this book and have even read the second book in the trilogy. My mom even loved this story. I would highly recommend this book to readers of all ages as an incredible read.