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

Ransom Riggs

Start date: September 1, 2012

Finish date: September 30, 2012

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Jan 31, 2014 Pam rated it really liked it

Shelves: florida, wales, ya-fiction

AUTHOR: Riggs, Ransom
TITLE: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Date Read: 01/31/2014
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS: YA/2013/Quirk Books/352 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: #1

TIME/PLACE: Present/FL & 1940's UK
CHARACTERS: Jacob/16-yr old

FIRST LINES: I spend the last afternoon of Before constructing a 1/10,000-scale replica of the Empire State Building from boxes of adult diapers.

COMMENTS: This book had been recommended & I did want to read it. I recently won the sequel so wante ...more

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Mar 07, 2017 Ra rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book, scribd

I heard the audio version of the book and therefore missed the most striking artistic element of its production, namely the strange photos of the children, which apparently came from private collections and were incorporated in the story. Some reviewers thought that the story was merely woven around interpreting these weird images, and the story does not have enough substance to hold on its own.

This is not my first foray into YA reading. I was introduced to it through reading sessions with my so ...more

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Mar 15, 2015 Ashley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: youngadultfiction, series, 2015-reading-challenge

I read this book because my mom got it for me . She got it for me because I had expressed a weird interest in old mental institutions from the early 1900's when they did experiments on their patients rather then actually help treat them.

This was a bizarre read for me and I mean that in a good way . It's like a combination of genres; YA, horror, mystery, etc. The novel kind of creeped me out lol . I almost stopped reading it because I was afraid I was gonna get nightmares from reading it . I kno ...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Erica rated it it was amazing

Oodles of fun. Perhaps best aimed at a mid-teen audience, but a great read for adults as well. Waiting for the movie, which seems like it could be better, scarier, and more thrilling than the Harry Potter enterprise! Love the quiet comment running through the book of accepting human difference but critiquing deliberate genetic modification.

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Jul 14, 2015 Jo rated it liked it

Started out promising but the second half is quite disappointing. I wish the author would just write a good story instead of making up some contrived characters to fit the photos that he had.

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