Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs

As a child, Jacob Portman loved listening to his grandfather’s fantastic stories about growing up in a children’s home on a remote Welsh island, where he lived with extraordinary children who could fly, become invisible or lift boulders. His grandfather even had strange old photographs to prove it. As Jacob grew older, he decided the stories must be fairy tales.

Then, when Jacob is sixteen, a terrible family tragedy sends him searching for answers. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the bestselling debut novel by Ransom Riggs, Jacob travels to the island off the coast of Wales to find the children’s home his grandfather described. He discovers the building in ruins, apparently destroyed long ago. But as he explores, he begins to realize that the children who once lived there may have been more than peculiar, and that they may still be alive.

Jacob’s search leads him into a hidden world of time loops, peculiar children and a protective guardian, Miss Peregrine, who can transform into a bird. He also learns of terrifying creatures that hunt peculiar people, and discovers that his grandfather’s past is closely tied to his own future.

A distinctive feature of the book is its use of real vintage photographs, collected by the author, which are woven into the story and add to its eerie, atmospheric feel.

Haunting and imaginative, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is the first book in a bestselling series and was adapted into a film. It is a captivating read for teens and adults who enjoy fantasy, mystery and suspense. It contains some frightening scenes.