Girl goes over to the other site of her house and encounters her button-eyed "other parents"

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I read a book, whose title I've forgotten, in the fifth grade, which was about a girl who somehow 'went over' to the wrong side of her house and found that her parents (and brother, maybe?) had 'black button-like' eyes in the 'other house'. Her button-eyed parents and real parents coexist, but her real parents do not know of the existence of the button-eyed​ parents.

She somehow finds a way to speak to the button-eyed parents frequently(I think she was compelled to do so) by crossing over from her real house to the 'other house', but doesn't like them. They have an evil aura.

I'm afraid that's all I remember, and I know it's vague and sketchy, but that's the most I remember now!

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This is Coraline by Neil Gaiman.

Coraline's often wondered what's behind the locked door in the drawing room. It reveals only a brick wall when she finally opens it, but when she tries again later, a passageway mysteriously appears. Coraline is surprised to find a flat decorated exactly like her own, but strangely different. And when she finds her "other" parents in this alternate world, they are much more interesting despite their creepy black button eyes. When they make it clear, however, that they want to make her theirs forever, Coraline begins a nightmarish game to rescue her real parents and three children imprisoned in a mirror. With only a bored-through stone and an aloof cat to help, Coraline confronts this harrowing task of escaping these monstrous creatures.

It may interest you to learn that they made it into an animated feature film.

Girl goes over to the other site of her house and encounters her button-eyed "other parents"

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