JCPL Teens

We have done a few different blog posts about the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. This is a really unusual book because the author's inspiration for writing the book was his collection of Victorian photographs.

The main character, a young man named Jacob, was very close to his grandfather. Upon the death of his grandfather, Jacob starts trying to figure out his grandfather's past. This quest leads Jacob and his father to stay for a while on a remote island off the coast of Wales. A home that Jacob's grandfather stayed in during the war is on this island. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is in ruins when Jacob finds it. However, there are some strange things going on... Could some of these children from long ago still be alive?

Word is a sequel will be out the Spring of 2013.

And, yes, this book has also moved one step closer to becoming a movie! Screen writer Jane Goldman, X-Men, is in talks with 20th Century Fox about adapting Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children to the big screen.