Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. 2011, 352p. ISBN 1-59474-476-9. FIC RIG on the library shelves and also available as an eBook on Overdrive.
Jacob has heard all of the stories his grandfather
told him about his time on a remote island of Wales in an orphanage for
peculiar children during the Second World War. He’s even seen the
photos. He believed his grandfather when he told him about the girl who
levitated or the invisible boy, or the boy who released spiders every
time he opened his mouth. But when he was told by other kids he believed
in fairy tales, he stopped believing, and eventually his grandfather
stopped telling him the stories.
Now his grandfather has been killed by a monster only Jacob could see. His parents, worried for him, send him to a psychiatrist, who convinces Jacob to return to the island and see if he can learn more about his grandfather and why he would make these things up. Only, when Jacob gets there, the orphanage is real, and so are the orphans, living in a time loop. Jacob must now question everything he knows, and quickly as he brought with him the very monsters that haunt and murder peculiar children.
The story continues in Hollow City.
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