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Oxford Playscripts: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Philip Pullman
Category: Plays | Series: Oxford Playscripts S.
"Oxford Classic Playscripts: Frankenstein" is the famous story of a young man who thinks he can change the world by making better human beings. Instead he creates a living monster with a mind of its own. It contains new, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teachi ...Show more
Serpentine by Philip Pullman
Category: Fantasy | Sci Fi
A story in the Arctic from the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust by master storyteller, Philip Pullman. 'Lyra Silvertongue, you're very welcome . . . Yes, I know your new name. Serafina Pekkala told me everything about your exploits' Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon have left the event ...Show more
The Amber Spyglass (#3 His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Category: Teen | Series: His Dark Materials
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 tog ...Show more
The Amber Spyglass (#3 His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Category: Teen | Series: His Dark Materials | Reading Level: very good-near fine
The unforgettable His Dark Materials trilogy that began with Northern Lights, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time", and continued with The Subtle Knife, reaches its astonishing conclusion in The Amber ...Show more
The Book of Dust Volume One - La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Category: Teen | Series: The Book of Dust 1 | Reading Level: very good
Winner - Author of the Year, British Book Awards Philip Pullman's magnificent bestseller now in paperback, with new additional illustrations. A coming of age story like no other . . . Malcolm Polstead's Oxford life has been one of routine, ordinary even. He is happiest playing with his daemon, Asta, in ...Show more
The Broken Bridge by Philip Pullman
Category: Teen | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Sixteen-year-old Ginny's life is secure. She's turning out to be a brilliant artist like her mother, who died when she was a baby and she loves her life with her father in a seaside village in Wales. But the day a social worker arrives and old files are re-opened, Ginny's world cracks apart. Everything ...Show more
The Collectors by Philip Pullman
Category: Teen
A Gothic-feeling, atmospheric mystery story set in the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust from the globally bestselling and master storyteller Sir Philip Pullman. 'D'you - er - have you seen her before?' 'Yes. I know who she is.''But, Grinstead, this painting is seventy years old - probabl ...Show more
The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman
Category: Fiction
She began with little Crackle-Dragons, six on a string. Then she learned how to make Leaping Monkeys, Golden Sneezes, and Java Lights. Soon she was thinking about more complicated ones . . .What Lila wants to be more than anything else in the world is a Firework-Maker. But firework-making isn't just abo ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
Category: Gift Books | Reading Level: very good
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayist ...Show more
The Scarecrow and the Servant by Philip Pullman
Category: Fiction
What would you say if I offered you the position of my personal servant? I have nothing to offer but excitement and glory. We might sometimes go hungry, but we shall never want for adventure . . .'So begins the story of the Scarecrow, a courteous but pea-brained fellow with grand ideas. He meets a boy, ...Show more
The Secret Commonwealth (#2 The Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman
Category: Fantasy | Sci Fi | Series: Book of Dust
From the author of the phenomenal His Dark Materials trilogy comes the next chapter in the story of Lyra Silvertongue . . . Lyra Silvertongue is now studying at St Sophia's College, Oxford, with her daemon Pantalaimon. They are not getting on. Lyra is questioning everything she once held dear. Pan misse ...Show more
The Secret Commonwealth (#2 The Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman
Category: Fantasy | Sci Fi | Series: The Book of Dust 2 | Reading Level: near fine
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage- The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end ...Show more