Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar ChildrenBy Ransom Riggs

A fanatasy, adventure and a little bit of romance hidden inside! For young adult!Told in first person

In this book, the protagonist, Jacob Portman, goes on an adventure to find the meaning of his dead granfather's last words: "Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man's grave. September third, 1940. Emerson-the letter". To learn more about his grandfather's past and thinking this could be the answer to the last words that his grandfather had uttered, he went to his hometown, Cairnholm Island, Wales, UK, There, he had found some answers. His grandfather had found a loophole that kept repeating the same day: September third, 1940. And inside that loophole, he found a group of children called "The Peculiars".

The Peculiars are children that have fascinating abilities. One of them is able to carry a few hundred pounds without breaking a sweat. Another is a boy who has some uncanny predictions about the future. There is also a girl who is able to conjure fire out of her hands. These children and their headmistress, Miss Peregrine (the bird), have been hidden away for more than seventy years in the loophole, living the same day over and over again: Spetember third, 1940. But these children are hiding from monsters that live to feast on the Peculiar children: The Hollowgasts.

"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen."-Jacob Portman

Emma Bloom

Hollowgasts

"I used to dream of escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was."-Jacob Portman

Miss PeregrineAKA "The Bird"

Jacob spent the rest of his vacation going to the loop and spenting time with his Peculiar friends, especially Emma Bloom, a very striking girl. Suddenly on the island, there is murder. A man is dead and his insides were scraped out, a hint that a Hollowgast was there. Jacob and his friends are there to find out if a Hollowgast was really behind the murder. But as soon as they find out what really caused it, their plan backfires. They were discovered... By a Hollowgast.

Click on "The Bird" to go to the home of the Peculiar

Theme:"You are more peculiar than you think yourself to be."-Miss Peregrine

"At times, young man, you tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded."-Miss Peregrine

"Lion-heartedness must run in your family."-Miss Peregrine