1st+Read-Coraline

Coraline is a creepy read especially when the hand of the other mother enters Coraline's real world. I really liked the part where Coraline is being sarcastic with her mother and says that "she has been stolen by aliens." I think people should read this book because it is a great adventure! Analicia Guerrero

The book Coraline is a really good book because it has mystery and it is a great adventure. The book Coraline is very different from the movie and I recommend you read the book first! Lilly Orozco

Coraline is really scary. The most creepy part is when the rats are singing. They sing this song about what might happen later in the book! I recommend this book for people who like mysteries, horror stories and adventures. Maria Pozo

I think Coraline is a really creepy read! The other mother, with the button eyes really gives me goose bumps especially when she eats the bugs as if they are chocolate. I recommend this book to anyone who is in for a scare! Brenda Cabello

For the people who have not seen the movie, Coraline- I strongly recommend you read the book first to see what your imagination can come up with. Be sure to see the movie too! Genesis Ruiz

Coraline is a girl like any other person, where she lives there is no one to play with. She only has a cat to befriend. Everyday she finds out more strange things about her new house. My opinion of Coraline is that people should read the book! I recommend the book to the people who created the movies because it is so different then the actual book. Jocelynn Castillo

Coraline Book Summary: 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.

"More then ten years ago I started to write a children’s book. It was for my daughter, Holly, who was five years old. I wanted it to have a girl as a heroine, and I wanted it to be refreshingly creepy. I started to write a story about a girl named Coraline. I thought that the story would be five or ten pages long. The story itself had other plans.... It was a story, I learned when people began to read it, that children experienced as an adventure, but which gave adults nightmares. It's the strangest book I've written, it took the longest time to write, and it's the book I'm proudest of."
 * A note from Neil Gaiman about //Coraline//**