Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is not brand new to the library, but has never been checked out and has received a lot of positive attention from book reviewers. For this reason, I thought I better read it and see if it is something I should be recommending to the students at Northwest--I am glad I did. This book is a great read. The author was inspired to write the story by looking through old photographs of "peculiar children", and the photographs he used are in the book. (We don't always get pictures and photographs in our novels, so it was a special treat!)
The story centers around Jacob, who after the tragic death of his grandfather travels to a remote island. Here he thinks he can find some answers about the seemingly crazy stories his grandfather has been telling him his whole life about his childhood spent in an orphanage with children who are invisible, have two mouths, can levitate etc. When he travels to this "abandoned" orphanage however, he becomes entangled in a fantastic adventure with these peculiar children whom he meets after travelling in time to 1940. Here the children never get older because they are stuck in a "loop" that resets itself every day so that they can avoid the horrific scene that begins on the island during World War II.
There is SO much more to this novel, but you will have to check it out yourself to figure out the rest! I would recommend this book to our fantasy/science fiction readers, but I especially think if you liked
Harry Potter, you would love this book as well.
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