Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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4.4 • 69 Ratings
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- £7.49
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- £7.49
Publisher Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling series.
Bonus features
• Q&A with author Ransom Riggs
• Eight pages of color stills from the film
• Sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. 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 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. 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 deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
“A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars
“With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+”—Entertainment Weekly
“‘Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”—People
“You’ll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It’s a mystery, and you’ll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”—Seventeen
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The first book in novelist Ransom Riggs’ wildly successful YA series, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a thrilling rollercoaster ride with a few detours through a legitimately creepy haunted house. (Fittingly, Tim Burton is directing the movie version, out in fall 2016.) Jacob’s life as a seemingly ordinary teenager is shattered when a dark family secret emerges and sends him on a life-altering adventure, complete with monsters, heartbreak, and, yes, some very peculiar children. It’s a deliciously spooky and relentlessly exciting story that left us totally hooked.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Riggs's atmospheric first novel concerns 16-year-old Jacob, a tightly wound but otherwise ordinary teenager who is "unusually susceptible to nightmares, night terrors, the Creeps, the Willies, and Seeing Things That Aren't Really There." When Jacob's grandfather, Abe, a WWII veteran, is savagely murdered, Jacob has a nervous breakdown, in part because he believes that his grandfather was killed by a monster that only they could see. On his psychiatrist's advice, Jacob and his father travel from their home in Florida to Cairnholm Island off the coast of Wales, which, during the war, housed Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Abe, a Jewish refugee from the Nazis, lived there before enlisting, and the mysteries of his life and death lead Jacob back to that institution. Nearly 50 unsettling vintage photographs appear throughout, forming the framework of this dark but empowering tale, as Riggs creates supernatural backstories and identities for those pictured in them (a boy crawling with bees, a girl with untamed hair carrying a chicken). It's an enjoyable, eccentric read, distinguished by well-developed characters, a believable Welsh setting, and some very creepy monsters. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Recommend to all my Peculair friends
But it if not u will miss out
There’s several books in the miss peragrines home for peculiar children series including: Miss Peragrines Home For Peculair Children, Hollow City, Libary Of Souls, Map of Days and Peculair Tales.
The movie stars
Eva green- as miss peragrine
Finlay McMillan- as Enoch
Lauren Mcrostie- as Olive
Raffiella Chapman- As Claire
Pixie Davis- As Bronwyn
Hayden-Keeler-Stone- as Horace
Samual.L Jackson- As Barron
Judy Dench- as Miss Avocet
Cameron King- As Millard
Joseph Odwell and his brother- As the Twins
Asa Butterfeild- as Jake
Georgia Pemberton- as Fiona
Ella Pernell- As Emma
Tim Burton- Directer
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Hard to get into
Thought I would love and tried so hard to get into the story but it just didn’t work at all. Not for people who need quick plot twists or something to happen early in
To cool
Best book ever I would highly recommend this book for children 5 to 18 years old.