After moving to a new town, Henry throws himself into a friendship
with Mr. Levine, a holocaust survivor who spends his days and nights
carving a replica of the village he was born in and which was destroyed by
the war.
When Karen Jerome walks in on the thrashers who are destroying her
family's Cape Cod cottage, she is thrown down the stairs and slips into a
coma. The thrashers slip away, but the Avenger has seen it all.
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best
friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome
experiments in the Far North.
To make up for an English class he failed, 18-year-old Steve
York produces a journal that reveals how he has gone from a National Merit
scholar to an underachieving stoner.