A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

by Ransom Riggs

It was a mingling of worlds I’d imagined a thousand times but never dreamed possible. But here it was: my Before and After, colliding with the force of planets.

She set the cookies down and fixed me with a stare. “The subject was male.” “I’m not pregnant!” I said a little too loudly. “And thank goodness for that!” someone shouted from the living room.

Millard sighed. “Well, then. I shall endeavor to be fully dressed at all times, lest anyone be made uncomfortable by basic facts of biology.”

I was so irritated that the minute she left to tuck Olive and Claire into bed I found Emma and said, “Want to see my room?” “Absolutely,” she replied, and we snuck into the hall and up the stairs.

“I want to dance with you. Pick a good one for dancing.”