Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

After a family tragedy, sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman travels to a remote island off the coast of Wales to investigate the stories his grandfather told him as a child — impossible tales of a home for children with strange abilities, and of the monsters that hunted them. Jacob had long dismissed the stories as fairy tales and the yellowed photographs that accompanied them as tricks. But on the island he discovers the crumbling ruin of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and, through it, something far stranger and more real than he imagined.

The peculiar children are still there, preserved within a single day that repeats endlessly, watched over by the pipe-smoking, bird-shapeshifting Miss Peregrine. As Jacob comes to understand his own connection to them — and the danger that his arrival has reawakened — he must choose between the ordinary life he knew and a hidden world under threat.

Built around a haunting collection of genuine vintage photographs, Ransom Riggs's debut is an atmospheric young-adult fantasy about grief, belonging, and the peculiar gifts that set us apart. It is the first book in a bestselling series.