Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Abraham Portman always told his grandson of the adventures he lived before he became and father and grandfather. His life in an orphanage after surviving being snuck out of Germany during the Nazi invasion. The stories of fighting in the war. Knowing all there was to know about guns, how to camp and survive the wilds. Being able to speak three languages other then English. To his grandson Jacob his life was a legend, the thing that made him want to discover the unknown. But one day Jacob's mother sits him down and explains that everywhere has been discovered and that there is no where left to discovered. Grandpa Portman still always stuck to his story that he could never return to his place of birth, because of the monsters that were after him. And when Jacob asked about the monster his grandfather would explain ones with rotting skin and black eyes. Ones with tentacles in their mouths and strong jaws. Jacob struggled to sleep knowing these tells as any child would. But his favorite stories for his grandpa to tell were of the kids in the children's home that he grew up in. A place to be safe, kept warm where no one ever got sick or died. A place that a bird who smoked a pipe was in charge. A place where peculiar children were kept safe. A girl who flies, a boy with bees inside him and an invisible kid. Jacob struggled to believe the stories until he was shown pictures. Jacob decides on day when his grandpa picks him up that all these stories are made up, and that he no longer believes in them. Life goes on without stories and without nightmares for Jacob that is until he is fifteen. Then there is life only it is now the Before and After. With the strange death of his Grandpa and the strange words he utters as he dies to Jacob, there is no turning back. What Jacob will find is the after...


I LOVED this book.

It has a creepy quality that I loved but didn't scare me to death. I loved the idea and concepts, the pictures that helped tell the story and the idea that there are time travel loops. Days that never end and a chance to do it all over.

Due to the creepy idea behind this book I suggest 14 and up.