Miss Peregrines Home for Pecu

"The #1 New York Times  Best Seller is soon to be a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton starring Eva Green Asa Butterfield Ella Purnell Samuel L. Jackson and Judi Dench.    Includes an excerpt from the much-anticipated sequel and an interview with author Ransom Riggs   A mysterious island.??   An abandoned orphanage.??   A strange collection of very curious photographs.??   It all waits to be discovered inMiss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. 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 Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways it becomes clear that the 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. ??A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photographyMiss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults teens and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.   A tense moving and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.-John GreenNew York Times best-selling author ofThe Fault in Our Stars   With itsX-Men: First Class -meets-time-travel story line David Lynchian imagery and rich eerie detail its no wonderMiss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+-Entertainment Weekly   Peculiar doesnt even begin to cover it. Riggs chilling wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.-People   Youll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. Its a mystery and youll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.-Seventeen"