Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

February 28, 2012
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Fiction / Fantasy
By: Ransom Riggs
Reviewed by M. Diego
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

“They are coming after me, understand? I don’t know how they found me after all these years, but they did. Find the bird in the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave. September third, 1940. There you will be safe.” This was the very last thing that Jacob Portman, a 16-year-old boy, was told by his grandpa before they found him dead in the woods outside his house. Nobody knows who or what killed him but this event brings back memories for Jacob. Jacob remembers his grandpa telling him stories when he was a little boy about his childhood and how he ran away from monsters and lived in an orphanage full of peculiar children that had incredible powers. He told him of kids that could fly, turn invisible, and have super strength. Even with the photographs that his grandpa showed him of the kids, Jacob never believed it until now. His grandpa’s last words were his only clue to find the truth about what happened to him. So he goes off to the island were the orphanage was once in operation in the hopes of finding answers. But instead of answers he finds an old building that was bombed in the 1940’s that used to be the orphanage. But his grandpa sent him to the island for a reason, not just to find a ruined building. Could the kids still be alive? How will he find the answers? And what were the types of monsters his grandpa told him about and feared as a kid?

Miss Peregrine’s home for Peculiar Children was a book that I really enjoyed. As you go through the story the author provides the reader with old photographs of the peculiar kids and people. These pictures make you feel like you are there with Jacob solving his grandpa’s mystery. I would say that it was an easy read and anyone would really enjoy it, especially people who love a great mystery and adventure. As you read this book you won’t ever want to put it down, which is how I ended staying up late at night. All in all, this book was great and I would read it again anytime.

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