Coraline (shared by Academia Native, contains 13 English texts)

Coraline - Chapter 1 (14 likes)

Neil Gaiman, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 1966 words

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. —G. K. Chesterton Coraline discovered the door a little while after

Coraline - Chapter II (6 likes)

Neil Gaiman, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 1501 words

Coraline - Chapter II The next day it had stopped raining, but a thick white fog had lowered over the house. “I'm going for a walk,” said Coraline. “Don't go too far,” said her mother.”And dress

Coraline - Chapter III (4 likes)

Neil Gaiman, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 2080 words

Coraline - Chapter III The next day the sun shone, and Coraline's mother took her into the nearest large town to buy clothes for school. They dropped her father off at the railway station. He was

Coraline - Chapter IV (2 likes)

Neil Gaiman, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 2519 words

Coraline - Chapter IV The house looked exactly the same from the outside. Or almost exactly the same: around Miss Spink and Miss Forcible's door were blue and red lightbulbs that flashed on and off

Coraline - Chapter V (2 likes)

Neil Gaiman, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 3916 words

Coraline - Chapter V Coraline locked the door of the drawing room with the cold black key. She went back into the kitchen and climbed onto a chair. She tried to put the bunch of keys back on top

Coraline - Chapter VI (3 likes)

Neil Gaiman, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 2734 words

Coraline - Chapter VI Coraline was woken by the midmorning sun, full on her face. For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was. I

Coraline - Chapter VII (3 likes)

Neil Gaiman, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 1327 words

Coraline Chapter VII Somewhere inside her Coraline could feel a huge sob welling up. And then she stopped it, before it came out. She took a deep breath and let it go. She put out her hands to touc

Coraline - Chapter VIII (3 likes)

Neil Gaiman, Fiction, Intermediate, 3375 words

Coraline - Chapter VIII The other mother looked healthier than before: there was a little blush to her cheeks, and her hair was wriggling like lazy snakes on a warm day. Her black button eyes seeme

Coraline - Chapter IX (4 likes)

Neil Gaiman, Fiction, Intermediate, 2260 words

Coraline - Chapter IX Outside, the world had become a formless, swirling mist with no shapes or shadows behind it, while the house itself seemed to have twisted and stretched. It seemed to Coraline

Coraline - Chapter X (3 likes)

Neil Gaiman, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 2382 words

Coraline - Chapter X Coraline walked up the stairs outside the building to the topmost flat, where, in her world, the crazy old man upstairs lived. She had gone up there once with her real mother,

Coraline - Chapter XI (3 likes)

Neil Gaimon, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 2181 words

Coraline - Chapter XI Once inside, in her flat, or rather, in the flat that was not hers, Coraline was pleased to see that it had not transformed into the empty drawing that the rest of the house s

Coraline - Chapter XII (2 likes)

Neil Gaimon, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 2009 words

Coraline - Chapter XII Her mother shook her gently awake. “Coraline?” she said.”Darling, what a funny place to fall asleep. And really, this room is only for best. We looked all over the house for

Coraline - Chapter XIII (2 likes)

Neil Gaimon, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 2875 words

Coraline - Chapter XIII Coraline's parents never seemed to remember anything about their time in the snow globe. At least, they never said anything about it, and Coraline never mentioned it to them