Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children /
by Ransom Riggs.
- Philadelphia : Quirk Books, c2011.
- 352 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
School Library Journal, June 2011 Library Journal, May 2011 Booklist, May 2011 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2011
Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.