YA Fantasy book about a girl who find a lighthouse in a desert and gets transported into a magical world

[Quartnie]

I really dont remember much else, the cover of the version my middle school had a girl and a golden rope on it I think but I read so much in middle school and high school that I might be mixing books up.

[Paige]

Abarat

[Kris]

Google Books preview of Abarat by Clive Barker - Paige's suggestion:

https://books.google.com/books?id=_p4... There are different cover images.

Wikipedia's plot summary - with Spoilers:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abarat