Goodreads Synopsis:
Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake . . . even more than usual.
She
(plus her ghost best friend, Jacob, of course) are in Paris, where
Cass's parents are filming their TV show about the world's most haunted
cities. Sure, it's fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower,
but there's true ghostly danger lurking beneath Paris, in the creepy
underground Catacombs.
When Cass accidentally awakens a
frighteningly strong spirit, she must rely on her still-growing skills
as a ghosthunter -- and turn to friends both old and new to help her
unravel a mystery. But time is running out, and the spirit is only
growing stronger.
And if Cass fails, the force she's unleashed could haunt the city forever.
The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.
The
fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until
the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in
another house just like her own.
Only it's different.
At
first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The
toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom,
books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur
skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another
father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little
girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Other
children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors.
Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all
her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost
children, her ordinary life, and herself.
Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.
I would say it's a
pleasure to meet thee, Prosperity Oceanus Redding, but truly, I only
anticipate the delights of destroying thy happiness.
Prosper
is the only unexceptional Redding in his old and storied family history —
that is, until he discovers the demon living inside him. Turns out
Prosper's great-great-great-great-great-something grandfather made — and
then broke — a contract with a malefactor, a demon who exchanges
fortune for eternal servitude. And, weirdly enough,
four-thousand-year-old Alastor isn't exactly the forgiving type.
The
fiend has reawakened with one purpose — to destroy the family whose
success he ensured and who then betrayed him. With only days to break
the curse and banish Alastor back to the demon realm, Prosper is playing
unwilling host to the fiend, who delights in tormenting him with nasty
insults and constant attempts trick him into a contract. Yeah, Prosper
will take his future without a side of eternal servitude, thanks.
Little
does Prosper know, the malefactor's control over his body grows
stronger with each passing night, and there's a lot Alastor isn't
telling his dim-witted (but admittedly strong-willed) human host.
