01591cam a2200349 4500 157267214 TxAuBib 20140318120000.0 121212s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781594746031 1594746036 (OCoLC)821024962 TxAuBib Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children / by Ransom Riggs. 1st paperback ed. Philadelphia, PA : Quirk Books, 2013. 382 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children ; 1 "As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow- impossible though it seems- they may still be alive.". 20140318. Orphanages Fiction. Islands Fiction. Teenage boys Fiction. Photography Fiction. Good and evil Fiction. Grandfathers Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Wales Fiction. Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children ; 1. T3L