Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by:
Ransom Riggs (author)
As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of a long-abandoned house - yet still familar house. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that...
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As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of a long-abandoned house - yet still familar house. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for a good reason. And somehow - impossible though it seems - they may still be alive.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594749025 (1594749027)
ASIN: 1594749027
Publish date: 2016-01-12
Publisher: Quirk Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children (#1)
It's more like 3.75 stars actually. The beginning was fantastic and the end even better but in the middle of the story the main character Jacob spent some time [spoiler] in a time loop [/spoiler] , so the story was dragging quite a bit.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is the first book in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series. Sixteen-year-old Jacob has questions after a family tragedy, which leads him to a remote island and to a ruined orphanage, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Plot...
Series: Miss Peregrine #1 I was pleasantly surprised by this book. What little I knew of it sounded weird, so I didn't know exactly what I was getting into or how the main character's story would tie into that of his grandfather's. I'm just trying not to look at some of the questionable internal l...
Book: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Author: Ransom Riggs Genre: Young Adult/Fiction/Supernatural Summary: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an un...
Good use of simple language to tell a surprisingly creepy story. Use of found photographs elevates a solid mid-list title to something special.
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