Author
Philip Pullman
5 books here
The Book of Dust
Middle grade · ages 10–14 · 800L · 2025
A prequel that assumes familiarity with His Dark Materials' world-logic but rewards new readers with Pullman's characteristic wit and a protagonist who actively shapes her story — not a gateway, but a genuinely engaging return to the daemon universe.
The tin princess (Sally Lockhart #4)
Young adult · ages 12–18 · 800L · 2015
A grown-up mystery in the Victorian mode—Pullman treats Sally's adult agency and moral ambiguity seriously, and the prose rewards rereading, but it's denser and darker than the earlier books in the series.
La Belle Sauvage
Young adult · ages 10–18 · 950L · 2017
A prequel that stands alone: Pullman at full craft, with genuine peril, moral complexity, and a 12-year-old protagonist who acts. Younger than *Northern Lights* tonally, but demand the reading stamina of a 13-year-old.
The Secret Commonwealth
Young adult · ages 12–18 · 920L · 2019
A darker, slower sequel that earns its ambiguity — Pullman trades the breakneck pacing of Northern Lights for philosophical depth and real institutional menace, but the payoff is for readers ready to sit with moral complexity.
Northern Lights
Middle grade · ages 10–14 · 800L · 2005
A genuinely complex adventure that trusts kids to follow institutional critique, moral ambiguity, and worldbuilding density — and they do; the daemon concept alone rewires how children think about emotion and identity.