Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children book

Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children book 

by: Ransom Riggs 

Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children a dark fantasy told throughout many combinations of narratives.The book is base on a boy that had a horrible family tragedy that happened to them few weeks ago, which leads him to clues to find out what happened to his family member. He follows the clues and it takes him to an abandoned children's home on an island. It all started when Jacob was a child his grandfather would tell him stories about this peculiar children that live in a loop that was made by a bird so he can go to sleep, Then he grew older and older and soon he stops believing in the stories. But one day Jacob goes to check on his grandfather, he finds him dead and he comes face to face with the monster that killed him. Jacob's grandfather dies in his arms, but not before saying his last words. No one believes that a monster killed Grandpa. Jacob starts having nightmares and slips into a deep depression. his Dr. Golan suggests he go to the island where Grandpa was raised, and maybe find the explanation behind his mysterious dying words. Jacob finds Miss Peregrine's home way out past the island's bogs. Snooping around the decaying estate, Jacob finds a cache of old photos like the ones Grandpa had. He was thinking if the stories that his grand father told him were true? He realizes that they were true when he gets caught snooping by a girl who can generate fire with her bare hands. This girl and her friends run when they see Jacob, but he chases them. They turn out to be Emma Bloom, fire starter, and Millard Nulling, an invisible boy and many other children.