Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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.

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Main Author: Riggs, Ransom
Other Authors: Bernstein, Jesse, 1974-
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Books on Tape, 2011.
Series:Riggs, Ransom. Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children ; 1.
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Summary: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.
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Duration: 09:42:18.
Physical Description:1 sound file : digital.
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Audience:3-6.
ISBN:9780307913012
0307913015
9780307913029
0307913023
Author Notes:

Ransom Riggs is a writer and filmmaker. He was born in Marland in 1980 and attended the Pine View School for the Gifted in Florida. He studied English literature at Kenyon College and studied film at the University of Southern California. His work on short films for the Internet and blogging for Mental Floss magazine got him a job writing The Sherlock Holmes Handbook which was released as a tie-in to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film. Riggs had collected curious vernacular photographs and approached his publisher, Quirk Books, about using some of them in a picture book. On the suggestion of an editor, Riggs used the photographs as a guide from which to put together a narrative. The resulting book was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children which made The New York Times Best Seller list.

One of his other books inspired by old photographs entitled Taking Pictures was published in 2012. Hollow City, the sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, also made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)