The book that I read is called Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. This book follows main character Jacob, a sixteen-year-old who has what one might call a peculiar life. After a family tragedy, in order for Jacob to find closure, he goes to an island off the coast of Wales. While there, he finds a house that his grandfather told him stories about. It is seemingly destroyed. However, the kids who used to live there aren't your average kids, and not just because it is difficult growing up during the second world war. However, the house isn't the only strange thing that Jacob finds on the island. He will soon learn that maybe his grandfather wasn't as crazy as Jacob thought.
Overall I thought the book was both detailed in plot and character development. Unfortunately, I can't talk much about the plot because it would spoil too much. However, I will say that it has its fair share of mystery and action. In my opinion, the characters seemed, for the most part, well developed, as well as changing and growing throughout the story. For example, in the beginning, Jacob is trying to get fired from his job, as he hates it. Then, as the story progresses, he sees something in the woods behind his grandfather's house that causes him to need therapy. After all of this, once he is on the island, he finally starts to show a caring side to some other characters. However, the thing I thought was the most intriguing was how the author, Ransom Riggs, came up with the story: he used old snapshots to piece together the story.
-Aidan Greenberg
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