Publication
Quirk Books (2012)
Description
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
Awards
Locus Award (Finalist — Young Adult Novel — 2012)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2014)
Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards (Finalist — Young Adult — 2011)
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2014)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 9-12 — 2013)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2014)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2014)
Iowa Teen Award (Nominee — 2015)
Benjamin Franklin Award (Silver — 2012)
Green Mountain Book Award (Nominee — 2014)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Recommended — 2014)
California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 2016)
IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (Finalist — 2012)
BILBY: Books I Love Best Yearly (Older Readers — 2017)
The Flume: NH Teen Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2013)
The Kitschies (Nominee — 2012)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2014)
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (Winner — 2015)
Lexile
890L
Original publication date
2011-06-07
Media reviews
Boken är knappast ett stilistiskt mästerverk. Dialogerna krystas stundom fram och vissa figurer är lika blodfattiga som de spöken som förföljer dem. Det som gör verket unikt är bilderna
The author’s ability to use the photos to play with the reader’s imagination, while still holding the tension of the plot, is extraordinary. This kind of device can feel like a self-conscious reminder of the authorial hand, but this is not the case in Miss Peregrine’s Home.
In Miss Peregrine’s, a teenager decides to investigate the stories his grandfather told him about an island off the coast of Wales. He finds more than he bargained for, of course, and there are adventures, involving a group of kids with remarkable abilities which are almost, but not quite,
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entirely similar to mutants from X-Men comics. For a story constructed to make use of a collection of vintage snapshots, it’s impressively cohesive, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with yet another recounting of the hero’s journey from callow youth to manhood. But the book never lives up to its own aesthetic, and the story refuses to get past surface level on the occasional odd idea or intriguing concept. Whatever its faults, Miss Peregrine’s only true sin is that, presentation aside, it isn’t really that peculiar. Show Less
Entertainment Weekly
Those Creepy Pictures Explained
The idea for Miss Peregrine's Home popped into Ransom Riggs' head when he ran across some sinister-looking vintage photos, which ''suggest stories even though you don't know who the people are or exactly when they were taken.'' As he began writing, he kept
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searching for images, even combing swap meets and flea markets. ''I was developing the story as I was finding the photos. I'd find a particularly evocative photo and I'd say, 'I need to work this in somehow.' '' Most are reproduced in the novel ''as is,'' but a few have been digitally altered. Riggs says he ended up with more photos than he could use: ''I have a nice big fat backlog for the second book.'' — Keith Staskiewicz
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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. This is a novel with ''movie adaptation'' written into its powerful DNA. B+
Physical description
8 inches
ISBN
1594746036 / 9781594746031