Pages 1-9, Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

I've only read 9 pages of this book, but I'll give you all the information I already know. Right now, the setting is in a place called Jordan College.

Boy - Going to Norway & The Magic Island by Roald Dahl

In these 2 chapters, Roald Dahl talks about what he did during his summer vacations. He sais that he always went to Norway. He doesn't know how his mother managed to do all the packing. 6 trunks plus loads of suitcases she had to pack!
First, the Dahls took a train to London, then another one headed for a town of which I've forgotten the name, then they continued by boat to Oslo (a.k.a. Christiania). There, they stayed for a night at their grandparent's house. Their grandparents were called Bestemama and Bestepapa. The next day, Dahls family took a smaller boat to a tiny, nameless island where a primitive old hotel run by some old people waited for them. Those old people always greeted them like they were old friends. The hotel was so primitive that they didn't even have a proper toilet! Imagine that! The only thing that came close to a toilet was a small outhouse. there, you sat on a hole in a wooden board, and what you did there dropped into a pit ten feet below. Disgusting, isn't it??? Dahls family always went to this tiny island even tinier than the one they were staying on, using an old rowboat, and there they would stay for a few hours and swim. When the kids were older, Dahl's mom purchased a not-so-seaworthy motorboat with a ridiculously old engine. That way, they were able to navigate to even further islands and much quicker than with the rowboat.