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Series is Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children:

A series of YA books written by Ransom Riggs.
#Year1st ReadTitleAuthor(s)My Rating 
1 2011 2018 (1) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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"A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story."
- John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars

A mysterious island.  An abandonded orphanage.  A strange collection of peculiar 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 out 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 decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar.  They may have been dangerous.  They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason.  And somehow - impossible though it seems - they may still be alive.

RANSOM RIGGS is the author of The Sherlock Holmes Handbook and Talking Pictures, a collection of found photographs.  He lives in Los Angeles.  This is his first novel.

BONUS FEATURES
  • The first chapter of Hollow City, the forthcoming sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
  • An exclusive Q&A with author Ransom Riggs
  • Never-before-seen peculiar photographs!
2 2014 2018 (2) Hollow City
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"A STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT...
Hollow City is even richer that Rigg's imagination debut, Miss Peregrine's Home for Pecular Children"
- Boston Globe


SEPTEMER 3, 1940, TEN PECULIAR CHILDREN FLEE an army of deadly monsters.  And only one person can help them - but she's trapped in the body of a bird.  The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine's Home for Pecular Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world.  There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine.  But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner.  And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to  safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom.  Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.

RANSOM RIGGS grew up in Florida but now makes his home in the land of peculiar children - Los Angeles.  He was raised on a steady diet of ghost stories and British comedy, which probably explains the novels he writes.  You can find him on Twitter @ransomriggs.

BONUS FEATURES
  • Sneak preview of the third Peculiar Children novel
  • Exclusive Q&A with Ransom Riggs
  • Never-before-seen peculiar photography
3 2015 2018 (3) Library of Souls
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A BOY WITH
EXTRAORDINARY POWERS.
AN ARMY OF DEADLY MONSTERS.
AN EPIC BATTLE FOR THE
FUTURE OF PECULIARDOM.


The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls.  As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress.  Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.

They’ll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil’s Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England.  It’s a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all.  Like its predecessors, Library of Souls blends thrilling fantasy with never-before-published vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.

RANSOM RIGGS grew up in Florida but makes his home in the land of peculiar children - Los Angeles.  He was raised on a steady diet of ghost stories and British comedy, which probably explains the novels he writes.  There's a nonzero chance he's in your house right now, watching you from underneath the bed.  (Go ahead and check.  We'll wait.)  If not, you can always find him on Twitter @ransomriggs.

"The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story."
- John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, on Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
4 2018 (4) A Map of Days
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A brave new world.

Unimaginable new dangers.

An adventure that has only just begun.


Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida.  Except now peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in.

But carefree days are quickly interrupted by the discovery of a subterranean bunker and clues to his grandfather Abe's double life as a peculiar operative.  Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited - truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine's time loop.

The stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom - a world with few ymbrynes, or rules - that none of them understand.

Spectacular new wonders, and terrorrs, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine's peculiar children.

RANSOM RIGGS was orn on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida.  He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Souther California.  He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, bestselling author Tehereh Mafi, and their family.






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