Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
Paperback
(Quirk Books, June 4, 2013)
The #1 New York Times best-selling series. Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrineās 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 Peregrineās 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 somehowāimpossible though it seemsāthey may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrineās Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. āA tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.āāJohn Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars āWith its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, itās no wonder Miss Peregrineās Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+āāEntertainment Weekly āāPeculiarā doesnāt even begin to cover it. Riggsā chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.āāPeople āYouāll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. Itās a mystery, and youāll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.āāSeventeen
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