Coraline

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The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....

In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.

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.

Only it's different.

At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. 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. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. 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.

Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.

176 pages, Paperback

First published July 2,2002

This edition

Format
176 pages, Paperback
Published
August 29, 2006 by William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN
9780061139376
ASIN
0061139378
Language
English
Characters More characters
  • Coraline Jones

    Coraline Jones

    The young explorer. She is curious, intelligent, resourceful, and courageous. Coraline is often irritated by rain, crazy grown-ups (as they all seem to be), and not being taken seriously because of her young age....

  • Coraline

    Coraline

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  • Mrs. Jones

    Mrs. Jones

    Coralines mother.more...

  • Mr. Jones

    Mr. Jones

    Coralines dad.more...

  • The Cat

    The Cat

    A black cat from Coralines world.more...

  • The Other Mother

    The Other Mother

    Coralines Other Mother with black buttons for eyes.more...

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