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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

Discussion: Books of the Month

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Sep 02, 2014 Lindsay rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 4stars, ya, read-in-2014, cover-to-cover-2014

3.5 stars

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Jul 07, 2014 Nancy rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy

This was an interesting idea - based on a whole series of unusual photographs which the author had found, it seemed he weaved a strange story about a group of very peculiar children. The story hung together well, and didn't require too much of a suspension of disbelief, but I did find that at times it was shoehorned a little artificially into the photographs. The edition I read was really lovely to hold, and the photos were interesting to look at but, although this is obviously the first of the ...more

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Feb 11, 2014 Gabriela rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nook, world-book-night-2014

A must read for anyone who's curious about fantastic ideas, parallel worlds and childhood dreams in which everything is possible. It could be a teen book, though in my opinion it is more than that. ...more

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May 25, 2012 Amber rated it it was ok

Shelves: ya

I had been wanting to read this for a while but was disappointed that it didn't live up to the hype I had given it. Glad the pictures were included. ...more

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