Book of the Issue

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a young adult fiction, fantasy story written by Ransom Riggs.

This book is perfect for anyone looking to experience the eerie and unexpected, along with the main character, Jacob Portman.

Jacob is a Florida teenager who is bored with the life happening around him.

Jacob’s grandfather, Abe Portman, was someone who Jacob idolized throughout his childhood. He had many stories of an eventful life as a Polish Jew who escaped Nazi persecution in WWII.

Abe told Jacob whimsical tales of his earlier life and that, as a refugee, he had stayed in a home with other children who all had some form of supernatural ability, which they referred to as their peculiarity.

Tragically, Jacob finds his grandfather one night, mauled by some arbitrary beast of the woods. Abe chooses to use his last words in passing on a message that would change the course of Jacob’s mundane way of living.

His grandpa said, “Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave. September third, 1940… Emerson—the letter. Tell them what happened, Yakob.”

These clues take Jacob on a sensational journey as this book does with its readers, allowing one to follow along with the departure from the repetitive schedule of today and escape to a world of thrilling missions.

One could utilize Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children to embrace their own peculiarities and maybe to slip away to experience the extraordinary.

As Jacob Portman said, “Maybe there was a way. And then things could be so good. My brain was a hope-making machine.”