Author: Neil Gaiman
Year: 2002
Reading Level: Intermediate
Genre: Real world fantasy
Plot Summary: Coraline loves exploring and she has plenty of time to explore her family's new flat, which is part of a larger house. In the course of her exploring she opens a door that leads to nothing...or so it seems. Soon she discovers an other world on the other side with other versions of her parents and neighbors. Her other parents adore her to a creepy extent and though they let her leave the first time, leaving the second time isn't so easy.
Red Flags: The story would scare some kids
Movie version: Coraline
My Rating: A-
This was such a spooky book! Ominous messages from mice, button eyes, shadowy things...spooky! This is probably my favorite Gaiman book that I've read. I really like the story and Coraline, though I wish we got into her head a little more. She says she's scared, but I don't always believe her. Also, I liked the cat.
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Books Read--2008 (*=twice)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Rowling
- Forever in Blue, Brashares
- Girls in Pants, Brashares
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Brashares
- The City of Ember, DuPrau
- Forever, Blume
- The Adventures of Captain Underpants, Pilkey
- Runaways, Vaughan
- Shiloh, Naylor
- Ophelia, Klein
- The Outsiders, Hinton
- Hatchet, Paulsen
- The Golden Compass, Pullman
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Blume
- Tuck Everlasting, Babbit
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, O'Brien
- Tantalize, Smith
- The Fantastic Flying Journey, Durrell
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Aiken
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Brashares
- Fairest, Levine
- The Tale of Despereaux, DiCamillo
- Runaway Ralph, Cleary
- Jinx, Meg Cabot
- Gossip Girl, von Ziegesar
- Little House on the Prairie, Wilder
- Coraline, Gaiman
- Crispin: the Cross of Lead, Avi
- An Abundance of Katherines, Green
- Goose Chase, Kindl
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Selznick
- Because of Winn-Dixie, DiCamillo
- Spiderwick Book 1, DiTerlizzi and Black
- The Dollmage, Leavitt
- Far From the Madding Crowd, Hardy
- Breaking Dawn, Meyer
- Nighttime is My Time, Clark
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Rowling
- Animal Farm, Orwell
- Twilight, Meyer
- Atonement, McEwan
- Of Mice & Men, Steinbeck
- Babylon's Ark, Anthony
- A Room with a View, Forster
- Northanger Abbey, Austen
- On the Road, Kerouac
- Brat Farrar, Tey
- Eclipse, Meyer *
- New Moon, Meyer *
- The Last Unicorn, Beagle
- Pride of Baghdad, Vaughan
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
- She Got Up Off the Couch, Kimmel
- An Offer from a Gentleman, Quinn
- Catching Katie, Hatcher
- Starship Troopers, Heinlein
- The Salaryman's Wife, Massey
4 comments:
Cool. Gaiman is on my list of authors to read in the future, maybe I'll have to bump him up.
I SSSSOOOOO need to read this.
I loved this one1 It was totally spooky. They are making a movie out of it, and I think I may buy it and have Neil Gaiman sign it as I will see him tomorrow at the Library of Congress National Book Fair. :)
Prof.: Yeah, bump it up! It won't take you long to read at all.
Ferskner: You totally do! I think you would really like it. Also, we need to watch Mirrormask.
Dolcezza: I'm excited to see the movie. I hope it is just as spooky as the book. Did you get your book signed??
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