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Coraline by Neil Gaiman is a middle-grade horror novel that follows a perceptive and adventurous girl named Coraline, who discovers a mysterious door in her family's drawing-room that leads to another world. In this strange and unsettling place, she meets her "other mother" and "other father," who have black buttons for eyes and want her to stay with them forever. Using her wit, bravery, and the help of friends, including a black cat and ghost children, Coraline must escape the other world and rescue her real parents.