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Title: Coraline Author: Neil Gaiman illustrator: Craig P. Russel copyright date: 2008 Pages: 186 pages AR book level: 5.1 AR points: 5 points //**__Cora line __**// Coraline is a sweet girl, but has a heart of an explorer. This very curious, clever and brave girl is the main character of this epic novel. The other characters of this epic novel are her real mother and father, the other mother (the Beldam) and other father, Mr. Bobo, Miss.Spink and Miss.Forcible. Coraline is often irritated by the rain and grown ups. The thing that irritates her the most is that everybody pronounces her name wrong. They call her Caroline instead of Coraline. That really ticks her off. She is about 13 and has black hair. She is pretty tall for her age. She loves to explore and that's why she gets irritated when it rains. When it rains she cannot go exploring in the wilderness.

This story is in the 21st century. This epic novel takes place in Great Britain, England. You can tell because instead they use the word flat instead of apartment. They also use the term drawing room instead of living room. Now you know something new. In the story they describe it as very rainy and when she moves into the flat (apartment) it was sunny because she was allowed by her parents to explore the new property. The next day she was bored because it was stormy with a blanket of fog. And from then on in the story it was rainy until the end.

The major conflict is that the day after Coraline moves in to her new home, she was bored and while her dad was on a business trip and her mom was out doing errands. She counted all the windows and doors. She counted 21 windows and 14 doors. 13 of the doors opened and closed. The 14th door was locked and if you did open it with a special key, there was a plain brick wall on the other side. But this time when Coraline opened it, there was a cold, pitch-black hallway and on the other side was a door to a parallel universe. When she went and opened the door on the other side she thought she saw her mother and father but it was other people. It was people that looked just like her mother and father. Their names were the other mother (but they mention her as the Beldam) and the other father. They had scary black button eyes. They gave her dinner and when she was going to go back to her universe they wouldn't let her. They wanted her for themselves. They wanted her to be their daughter. They even tried to sew button eyes for her eyes. But she refused. They wouldn't take no for an answer. They threw her behind a mirror. While she was there behind the silent, pitch black mirror she saw the spirits of three children. They told her that they were also held by their will in the parallel universe and for her to escape as soon as possible before she died like them. If you want to know more read the book.

I would recommend this book because it is a very good and heart warming book. It is also an epic novel (a comic book) so it is very easy to read. I would recommend this book to young people. Adults would maybe like this book. I would recommend it to 4-6 graders. It has easy grammar and you would enjoy it.