Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Published in 2011, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is Ransom Riggs's debut novel and the first in a popular young adult series. After his grandfather is killed under mysterious circumstances, sixteen year old Jacob Portman travels to a remote Welsh island to investigate stories his grandfather told him as a child. There he discovers Miss Peregrine's home, a hidden place for children with peculiar abilities, looping in time on a single day in September 1940. As Jacob comes to understand his own connection to the peculiars, he is drawn into a wider conflict with the hollowgasts that hunt them. Riggs built the novel around a collection of unsettling vintage photographs, reproduced throughout the book, which inspired many of the characters and scenes. The series spans several sequels and was adapted into a 2016 film directed by Tim Burton.
What you might want to know about Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A teenager investigates his grandfather's death and finds a hidden home for children with strange powers.
Yes, Riggs collected real vintage snapshots and built the story around them.
The main series spans six novels, plus companion volumes and a graphic novel adaptation.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children was written by Ransom Riggs, published in 2011 by Quirk Books.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is 388 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
