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La Belle Sauvage

by Philip Pullman · 2017

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Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them, a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua . . .

Genre
fantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thisadventureadventureMore like thisLess of thisscience fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thissteampunksteampunkMore like thisLess of thisalternate historyalternate historyMore like thisLess of this
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OxfordOxfordMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
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Audience
young adultchildrensmiddle grade
Length
long · 464 pages

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