Coraline
Neil GaimanCoraline 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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 07/02/2002
ISBN: 9780380977789
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.79w x 0.71d
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Nominee
Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Sequoyah Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award - Winner
Award: Locus Awards - Winner
Award: Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Bram Stoker Awards - Finalist
Award: Bram Stoker Awards - Winner
Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 06/15/2002 pg. 881
Publishers Weekly 06/24/2002 pg. 57
Romantic Times 08/01/2002 pg. 62 - Excellent
BookPage 08/01/2002 pg. 30
Booksense '76 Childrens Fall02 08/01/2002 pg. 1
School Library Journal 08/01/2002 pg. 184
New York Times 08/11/2002 pg. 18
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2002 pg. 755
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2002 pg. 106
Booklist 11/15/2002 pg. 592
ALA Best Books Young Adults 03/15/2003 pg. 1296
ALA Notable Children's Books 03/15/2003 pg. 1308
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2002 pg. 79 - Superior,Well Above Average
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2003 pg. 79 - Superior,Well Above Average
Booklist 08/01/2002 pg. 1948
People Weekly 03/02/2009 pg. 43
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 60645 / Coraline
Reading Level: 5.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 5