![]() She, her mother, and her father move into a new, very large apartment–full of mysteries and surprises for Coraline to discover. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.Ĭritically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.Ĭoraline is a curious, clever little girl. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. They want to change her and never let her go. But there’s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. ![]() The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.Īt first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. ![]() In Coraline’s family’s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. ![]() Why did I read this book: After having read Neil Gaiman’s adult works, I was excited to see how his writing would translate in young adult format! When I read the blurb for Coraline, I had to have it. ![]()
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