Saturday, May 4, 2013

Super Characters with Super Powers

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is a book I would recommend to my middle school readers that are interested in science fiction, particularly where kids are the heroes, and they need to use their deformities or supper powers to overcome the evil of the world.  I compare this book to many other popular young adult adventure stories my kids have enjoyed over the past few years.  I'm thinking of titles like, I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore, Maximum Ride, by James Patterson, the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan and even Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling . If readers enjoy any of these titles, they may enjoy the time warp twist in the plot of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Jacob is a typical sixteen year old boy who has a special connection to his aging grandfather. After his grandfather dies under suspicious circumstances, Jacob begins an adventure to a remote island off the coast of England to find the answers to his grandfather's mysterious ramblings, and clues to the odd photos shared or discovered after his untimely death. Little did Jacob know that the gift his grandfather passed on to him connected him more to the peculiar children he would meet on the island. Will their odd little gifts be enough to defeat the evil that is attempting to unleash itself onto the world.

Ransom Riggs uses realistic looking old photographs to retell the story of the peculiar children that gives the reader a great visual into the setting and oddities of these unusual characters.  This book is certainly going to be a series, as the ending, after a climactic battle with evil, leaves Jacob and his new friends on an adventure to save not only their mentor, Miss Peregrine, but the world.


Have you read any of these books mentioned above?  Check out the website for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children using the link above. The pictures are haunting.  How do they draw you into the possibility of reading this book? If you enjoy this kind of plot, perhaps this will be a good summer read for you.

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