The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.

Here lives an orphaned named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two
powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle,Lord Asriel,appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far
North, including photographs of a
mysterious celestial phenomenon
called Dust and the dim outline of a city
suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and
explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as
it seems. Lyra sets out for the
top of the world in search of her
kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare
truth-telling
instrument, the compass of the
title. All around her children are
disappearing—victims of so-
called "Gobblers"—and being
used as subjects in terrible experiments that
separate
humans from their daemons,
creatures that reflect each
person's inner being. And
somehow, both Lord Asriel and
Mrs. Coulter are involved.

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