Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs 9781594744761

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children who once lived here - one of whom was his own grandfather - were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason. And somehow - impossible though it seems - they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

About the Author
Ransom Riggs is the acclaimed director and screenwriter of the Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters viral video book trailer (named Best Book Trailer of the Year by Amazon.com!). He's also the author of Quirk's Sherlock Holmes Handbook. He is a screenwriter and filmmaker by trade. This is his first novel

Reviews
"A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story."-John Green, New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns

"Readers searching for the next Harry Potter may want to visit Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children."-CNN

"Riggs deftly moves between fantasy and reality, prose and photography to create an enchanting and at times positively terrifying story."-Associated Press

"I read all of the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children books and I loved them."-Florence of Florence + The Machine

"[A] thrilling, Tim Burton-esque tale with haunting photographs."-USA Today Pop Candy

"With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it's no wonder Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+"-Entertainment Weekly

"Peculiar' doesn't even begin to cover it. Riggs' chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies."-People

"You'll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It's a mystery, and you'll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself."-Seventeen

"Delightfully weird."-Good Housekeeping

"One of the coolest, creepiest YA books."-PopSugar


Awards
Winner of Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2014. Commended for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Teen) 2014 and Benjamin Franklin Award (Fiction-Teen) 2012. Short-listed for Locus Awards (Young Adult) 2012 and Young Reader's Choice Award (Senior/Grades 10-12) 2014 and Charlotte Award (High School/Grades 9-12) 2014 and Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Grades 9-12) 2013 and Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2013 and Volunteer State Book Awards (High School) 2013 and Sequoyah Book Awards (High School) 2014 and Green Mountain Book Award 2014.



Book Information
ISBN 9781594744761
Author Ransom Riggs
Format Hardback
Page Count 352
Imprint Quirk Books
Publisher Quirk Books
Series Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Weight(grams) 481g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm * 26mm