Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Just picking up this book enticed me to read it! I was not disappointed by this book and you won't be either. The use of authentic pictures makes the story better by lending a sense of realism to the atmosphere.

The ending left me a little unsatisfied, but luckily for us readers there are more books out there!

The story is about a sixteen-year-old Jacob grew up on his grandfather's weird but fascinating stories about his past. Were they true or not? It was hard to tell. When his grandpa dies from a mysterious mauling, Jacob falls apart, and he begins his search for something that will help make some sense of things. With his father, he goes to an island off the coast of Wales to find the orphanage where his grandfather had been sent to as a boy, before WWII. There he ventures into a fantastical world of Peculiars, monsters, and time loops, where he uncovers a world stranger and more dangerous than any he could have imagined. Actual photographs, starting with the levitating girl on the cover, are scattered throughout the book, introducing various Peculiars, and moving the story along through several haunting adventures toward the chilling end.

I highly recommend this book for anyone 14+ or if parents say the reader can, anyone younger may have a hard time understanding the plot of the story.