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book 3, His Dark Materials

No. of pages 544

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Great for age 9-18 years
The third volume in Philip Pullman's incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy. First published in 2000, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UK's top awards for children's literature. "We're going to the land of the dead and we're going to come back." Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been - and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned...

 

This is book 3 in His Dark Materials .

There are 544 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Scholastic .

Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. He lives in Oxford.

This book is in the following series:

C2C Series

His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials is a trilogy by Philip Pullman's which tells of a parallel world where people's souls have physical form in the shape of a daemon. This spellbinding adventure featuring armoured polar bears, magical devices, witches and daemons, is also a re-imagining of Milton's Paradise Lost.

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

Bbc Book Awards
This book was recognised in the Big Read Top 20 category by the Bbc Book Awards.

The Whitbread Award
This book was recognised by the The Whitbread Award, now called 'The Costa Book Awards'. These are a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland. They were inaugurated for 1971 publications and known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006 when Costa Coffee, then a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship.

Whitbread Book Award
This book was recognised in the Children's Book category by the Whitbread Book Award.

Whitbread Book Award
This book was recognised in the Book of the Year category by the Whitbread Book Award.

Carnegie Medal
This book was recognised by the Carnegie Award. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by childrens librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.

The Audies
This book was recognised by the The Audies.

Bbc Book Awards
This book was recognised in the Big Read Top 100 category by the Bbc Book Awards.

West Australian Young Reader's Book Award
This book was recognised in the Older Readers category by the West Australian Young Reader's Book Award.

This book features the following character:

Will Parry
This book features the character Will Parry.

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