Author: Ransom Riggs Title: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Place Published: Philadelphia, USA Publisher: Quirk Books Year Published: 2011 No. of Pages: 348 Price: US$9.99 Place Bought: Fully Booked, Greenhills Promenade One of my greatest joys as a reader is buying a book solely based on it's front and back cover--on a whim that it'll be an awesome read--and realizing in the end that I was right. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children , a young adult novel written by writer and filmmaker Ransom Riggs, is one such book. His novel tells the story of Jacob, a sixteen-year-old who travels to an island off the coast of Wales, in search of the orphanage his Grandpa Portman grew up in. He is looking for closure, for answers about his grandfather's storied past, and whether or not his unbelievable stories are true. Jacob finds the orphanage lying in ruins. His search leads him to a collection of old photographs of the children his grandfathe
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