Northern Lights (Pullman novel)

Northern Lights
	First edition
Author	Philip Pullman
Cover artist	David Scutt and Pullman
Series	His Dark Materials
Genre	Children's fantasy novel
Publisher	Scholastic Point
Publication date	9 July 1995
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages	399
ISBN	0-590-54178-1
OCLC	37806360
LC Class	PZ7.P968 No 1995 ; PZ7.P968 Go 1996
Preceded by	La Belle Sauvage
Followed by	The Subtle Knife

Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK. Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as "Dust".

Northern Lights is the first book of the trilogy, His Dark Materials (1995 to 2000).^[1] Alfred A. Knopf published the first US edition April 1996, under the name The Golden Compass,^[1]^[3] under which title it was adapted as a 2007 feature film and as a companion video game. The book has also been adapted as the first part of the 2019 TV series His Dark Materials.

Pullman won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding British children's book.^[4] For the 70th anniversary of the Medal, it was named one of the top ten winning works by a panel, composing the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.^[5] Northern Lights won the public vote from that shortlist and was thus named the all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" on 21 June 2007.

^ ^a ^b ^c His Dark Materials series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
^ "Northern lights". Library of Congress Catalog Record (LCC). Retrieved 28 July 2012.
^ ^a ^b "The golden compass" (first US edition). LCC record. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
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[isfdb-series-1] His Dark Materials series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 28 July 2012.

[LCC1-2] "Northern lights". Library of Congress Catalog Record (LCC). Retrieved 28 July 2012.

[LCC2-3] "The golden compass" (first US edition). LCC record. Retrieved 28 July 2012.

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