Serpentine: A short story from the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust
Published: 2020
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This book features in the following series: His Dark Materials, The Book Of Dust .
This book has been graded for interest at 12 years.
This book is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed. This book was published in 2020 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .
Matilda Tristram has worked as an animation director on music videos and as a scriptwriter and developer for Ragdoll Productions, on BAFTA award nominated Dipdap and The Adventures of Abney & Teal. Tom Duxbury is a teaching assistant. They live with their son in Tooting, London. Nick Sharratt is an award-winning and popular children's book artist, well known for illustrating the books of Jacqueline Wilson. He has written and illustrated many of his own books including What's in the Witch's Kitchen and Dear Fairy Godmother and The Foggy, Foggy Forest. Nick lives in Brighton, Sussex. 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:
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. The books are as follows:
Book 1 - Northern Lights. The opening instalment, sees Lyra and her shape-changing daemon embark on a dangerous quest. In Oxford, Lyra learns that children are being kidnapped by the mysterious Gobblers. When her friend Roger vanishes she determines to find him, and is given a powerful alethiometer which can reveal the truth in all things. After discovering that the adults around her are not what they seem, Lyra and Pantalaimon join forces with a band of Gyptians. Travelling north they encounter witch-queens and armoured bears, before being captured and taken to Bolvangar where children are being used in terrible and secret experiments...
Book 2 - The Subtle Knife. Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld Cittgazze, where soul-eating Spectres stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power. And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat and the shattering truth of their own destiny.
Book 3 - The Amber Spyglass. 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 book features the following characters:
Lyra Belacqua
Lyra Belacqua is the daughter of Lord Asriel and Mrs Coulter. She was raised as an orphan in the sanctuary of Oxford’s Jordan College. Tough, likeable heroine Lyra, brave, independent and intensely loyal to her friends, is at the centre of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy in which she is drawn into a war between several parallel universes. The significance of her own role gradually becomes apparent and questions of destiny and free will come into play.
Will Parry
This book features the character Will Parry.
