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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Contributor(s): Riggs, Ransom (Author)

ISBN: 9781594744761

Publisher: Quirk Books

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Pub Date: June 7, 2011

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2010942846

Lexile Code: 0890

Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 14 to UP

Physical Info: 1.10" H x 8.30" L x 5.60" W ( 1.10 lbs) 352 pages

Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000145802 ( Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)

Reading level: 5.70

Interest level: UG

Point value: 13.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.

Review Quotes: "A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story."--John Green, New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns

"Readers searching for the next Harry Potter may want to visit Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children."--CNN

"Riggs deftly moves between fantasy and reality, prose and photography to create an enchanting and at times positively terrifying story."--Associated Press

"I read all of the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children books and I loved them."--Florence of Florence + The Machine

"[A] thrilling, Tim Burton-esque tale with haunting photographs."--USA Today Pop Candy

"With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it's no wonder Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+"--Entertainment Weekly

"Peculiar' doesn't even begin to cover it. Riggs' chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies."--People

"You'll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It's a mystery, and you'll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself."--Seventeen

"Delightfully weird."--Good Housekeeping

"One of the coolest, creepiest YA books."--PopSugar

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