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Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children Summary When first beginning to read this novel one would think that Jacob has a very average life but in actuality he has a very extraordinary and peculiar life ahead. Jacob starts off as a young boy greatly proud of his grandfather and his accomplishments. His grandfather tells him he fought off monsters and that he lived on a very strange island filled with very strange and peculiar children. He even had old yellowed photos of these children using

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Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, is a thrilling and adventurous journey that takes place in Cairnholm, Wales. The story takes the reader into the life of Jacob Portman and his journey to discover an overwhelming mystery that started after the death of his grandfather, Abe Portman. Jacob was already at a depressed state during the loss of his grandfather, and the loss of his grandfather sent him tumbling even farther towards an enormous whirlpool of emotions, questioning

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The book I read is "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" and it was written by Ransom Riggs, it was published in 2011. It is a fantasy book that takes place on a mysterious island in Wales UK. First off we have Jacob. He is 16 years and he used to love his grandfather (Abe) stories, but he grew out of them thinking they were fairytales. Abe was murdered and Jacob got a glimpse at who did it. He was furious, curious, and upset. He decided to go on a journey to get answer about Abe's past.

Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children ( also called Peculiar Children, written by Ransom Riggs, is the first in the Peculiar Children Trilogy. In Peculiar Children, Riggs writes of a young boy named Jacob. All throughout Jacobs's childhood, his grandfather told him preposterous stories with impossible people.. After his grandfather was murdered, Jacob isolated himself. He then talked to a psychiatrist who told him that going could be beneficial to visit the place his grandfather told stories

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Written by Ransom Riggs, a film graduate with an obsession with vintage photographs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children conveys the message that one needs courage and faith in oneself to face this brutal world through Riggs’s peculiar photographs and his emotive language. As a child, Ransom Riggs was often taken to swap meets and secondhand shops by his grandmother. “It was pretty torturous for a 11- or 12- year old boy,” Mr. Riggs said, “but I would find these boxes of snapshots.” As a