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	ninasreviewpage
		Jordon College in Oxford is not an ordinary place for a girl; but then Lyra Belacqua is no ordinary girl, she can hear the hushed messages of truth uttered to her by the strange particles that animate her golden compass.
		Lyra journeys first to the far reaches of the north, where strange experiments are being conducted and where she meets the formidable armored bears.
		His main character, Lyra, has learned to spin the tallest tales to get by yet she possesses the most sincere and brave heart, and her interactions with her daemen (an alter-ego, part of her soul embodied in an animal bonded with her) are touching and humorous.
	www.gottawritenetwork.com /ninasreviewpage.html (2864 words)

	Best Science Fiction Fantasy of All Time
		Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults.
		The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University.
		But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world.
	www.elise.com /books/scifi/scifi.htm (1736 words)

	Outstanding Books for the College Bound
		English in Plain English With delicious wit and a delightfully down-to-earth tone, former New York Times Book Review editor Patricia O'Conner offers a guide to grammar that teaches you the basics and subtleties of the language--without the kind of jargon that tempted you to cut your high-school English class.
		Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
		Disfigured by boiling water, Finch Nobles is so ugly people shun her.
	www.hcpl.net /teens/books_zines/OutstandingBooksfortheCollegeBound.php (4137 words)

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