Miss Peregrine's House for Peculiar Children

Title: Miss Peregrine's House for Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs
Genre: Fantasy

You will like this book if:

• You like to read books that can get quite creepy, not scary, but definitely unnerving.
• You are interested in studying creepy pictures (did you notice the girl on the cover is floating?) or you are interested in photography yourself.
• You would be interested in a book that mixes realism and fantasy.
• You wish you had or know people that have "special" gifts.
• You like books with small romantic twists.
• You liked the movie Big Fish or even Groundhog Day.

You will not like this book if:

• You hate when books are left open-ended.
• You can't suspend your belief in reality as you read fantasy.
• You are scared of the dark or of the monster hiding under your bed.

Extra Note #1:  My favorite part of this book were the pictures.  Some were definitely creepy!  Others you could tell were doctored in some way.  As I read, I couldn't help but imagine how the author must have put all the pictures together and let those images tell the story, instead of the other way around.  I have never read a book created like that before.  Absolutely an adventure I enjoyed!
Summary: You know those stories your grandparents tell you when you are a small child...the ones about how things were when they were children.  Jacob experienced the same thing, but his grandfather's stories were about a "peculiar" group of children.  Miss Peregrine's Peculair Children could levitate, eat out of their back of their heads, were invisible, and could bring dead things back to life, and create light with their bare hands.  Jacob wanted to believe, but it was all so unlikely.  Now Jacob's grandfather is dead and all that Jacob was left was a mysterious message and an even stranger letter.  Jacob feels compelled to find out the truth behind his grandfather's stories, even if there isn't any.  As he and his father travel to a faraway, quaint island, Jacob not only finds Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children but invites trouble to knock on her door too.