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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
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March 13, 2012
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March 31, 2012
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Midu Hadi
Mar 10, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: fantasy, humor, 212books, magick, wights, time-travel, may-pick-it-up-later, read-in-september, reviewed, series-completion-in-progress
Quick-look at the Book
Jacob meets the Peculiars and Miss Peregrine, and discovers a familial connection he wasn't aware of.

Thoughts on this Book
It has been a while since I read this, so I don't remember much. I do remember feeling weirded out when Emma & Jacob start "dating". Back when his grandpa was a kid, Emma had a thing for him and with him. This just seemed squicky!

Oh, and of course, Jacob's a snowflake.

Thoughts on this Series

Kids with other abilities exist. And it's up to Ymbrynes to ma ...more
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Another one I loved that I forgot to put up on goodreads.
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