This awesomely scary book is being turned into a stop motion movie, directed by the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas, so if you see it, expect it to be good.

When Coraline moves into her new house, she has to put up with some put-up-able stuff, such as some old ladies calling her Caroline. That soon changes to more serious problems.

Coraline is an explorer, so when her mother goes out shopping for groceries, Coraline grabs a ring of keys, and goes to a forbidden door. When Coraline steps through, she sees many strange things such as talking animals, singing rats, and worst, the Other Parents. The other parents are tall, skinny pale people with button eyes. They want Coraline to be THEIR little girl, which makes Coraline want to go home.

When Coraline does go home, she sees that her parents are not there. Then she realizes the other mother has stolen her true parents. She knows she has to get them back. She goes back to her other mother, who is rather furious at Coraline. As a punishment, she locks Coraline behind a mirror.

While Coraline is behind the mirror, she sees the ghosts of 3 children that other mother has killed. They tell her that she must find their souls, which actually look like marbles. So Coraline hallenges the other mother to a game. Coraline must find the three souls and her true parents. I'm not going to tell you what happens after that though, but I think you can probably guess.

This is a really good book, but a little too short and not scary enough for my style.
4 toads, is what I'll have to say.

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