swingbeat: 6/26 Coraline by Neil Gaiman

This is a book for young adults, and it reads pretty easily (like Harry Potter). It's a bit creepy and dark, but it's not a horror by any means.

Coraline is a girl who moves into a new apartment in the middle of nowhere. She's pretty bored and wants to find things to do. Her parents ignore her, and she has no friends. Coraline meets some old folks

in the building, but they're too weird for her (but they help her for part of the rest of the story). And then she discovers a locked door in that house. She enters that door and discovers a dark parodied

version of her current world, with an "other mother" and "other father" who try to get her to stay in that world.

The story is about her discovery of the evil in that other world, and how she escapes and stops the adversary.

This is a good book - I intend to see the movie now :).