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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

Ransom Riggs

Start date: March 13, 2012

Finish date: March 31, 2012

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May 29, 2012 Judy rated it liked it

When Jacob Portman was a boy growing up in Florida, his grandfather told him extraordinary stories about children with magical talents. As Jacob became a teenager, he stopped believing the stories, even after his grandfather showed him vintage photographs of the children. When Jacob was sixteen, his grandfather was murdered and Jacob, who had found his grandfather's body, suffered a nervous breakdown. On the advice of his doctor, Jacob and his father traveled to the island of Cairnholm off the c ...more

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Jun 03, 2015 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Jacob Portman is a 16 year old living in Florida. Jacob's grandfather Abe has told him wild stories about his youth at a school in Wales. When his grandfather mysteriously dies Jacob and his father travel to Wales to try to find out more about Abe's past. The book uses antique photos throughout that have been "minimally" touched up by the author. I wonder how much photoshop was actually involved. I found the pictures to be distracting and it seemed to me that certain book events occurred only be ...more

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Jan 27, 2015 Cora rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1st-in-series, series, time-travel, young-adult, photography, world-war-ii, paranormal, europe, coming-of-age, adventure

Jacob's grandfather has always told magical stories about the home for children he lived in during World War II. He tells of fanciful friends like the girl who could levitate and the invisible boy and of the falcon, who was fond of pipes, who looked after them all. As Jacob got older, he realized that his grandfather's tales were fairy tales and exaggerations that help brighten a frightening time in his grandfather's life. However, as Jacob's grandfather aged, he started to lose his grip on real ...more

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