His Dark Materials: Once Upon a Time in the North

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Paperback
Author: Philip Pullman
Illustrator: John Lawrence
Publisher: Yearling
Publish Date: September 2017
Language: English
Reading Level: 6.3
EAN: 9780399555442

Overview

A not-to-be-missed prequel episode from Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials universe.

Lee Scoresby–Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua–is just 24 years old, and he’s recently won his hot-air balloon in a poker game. He finds himself floating North to the windswept Arctic island of Novy Odense, where he and his hare daemon Hester are quickly tangled in a deadly plot involving an oil magnate, a corrupt mayoral candidate, and Lee’s longtime nemesis from the Dakota Country, a hired killer with at least twenty murders to his name.

It’s only after Lee forms an alliance with one of the island’s reviled armored bears that he can fight to break up the conspiracy in a gun-twirling classic western shoot out–and battle of wits. A glimpse for Pullman fans into the first friendship of two of the most beloved characters in the His Dark Materials trilogy: Lee Scoresby and armored bear Iorek Byrnison.

Don’t miss Philip Pullman’s epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials!
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The Secret Commonwealth

Details

Pages: 144
Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.4 in
Lexile Score: 940
Interest Level: Middle Grade (MG)
Point Value: 4
ISBN: 0399555447