By Amanda Tennant, staff writer
In the world of odd fiction books, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs stands out among the rest as readers enter a delightful world full of mystery, adventure and all wondrous peculiarity.
This year’s Big Community Read selection is probably one of the coolest books I have ever read in my entire life. The story follows Jacob, a self-proclaimed unextraordinary teenager, as his world flips upside down after wit- nessing the death of his grand- father. Provoked by his grandfather’s last words as well as the strange stories about extraordinary, peculiar human beings that his grandfather used to tell Jacob as a child, Jacob decides to leave his home and visit the children’s refuge his grandfather lived in along with the strange, peculiar children told in the stories.
Not only is the plot intriguing, but throughout the book, pictures are added to complement the text as they are mentioned in the book. These weird photographs give the reader a surreal feeling of actually being there with Jacob and add to the magical eeriness of the book. This book definitely makes me wish I was peculiar. Overall 4.5/5