Book 3 of His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass
by Phillip Pullman
"Lyra and Will are in unspeakable danger. With help from the armoured bear, Iorek Byrnison and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a grey-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a magnificent amber spyglass. An assassin hunts her down. And Lord Asriel, with troops of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion, a battle of strange allies - and shocking sacrifice.
As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living and the dead finally comes to depend on two children and the simple truth of one simple story."
~from the back cover of The Amber Spyglass
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