Title: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Volume 1 - Ransom Riggs - book
Summary :
Sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman has been listening to his grandfather's fabulous tales since childhood. His grandfather, a Polish Jew, spent part of his life on a tiny island in Wales, where his parents had sent him to protect him from the Nazi threat. Young Abe Portman was taken in by Miss Peregrine Falcon, the director of an orphanage for "special" children. There, Abe rubbed shoulders with a host of children with supernatural abilities, supposedly protecting them from the "Monsters."
One evening, Jacob finds his grandfather mortally wounded by a creature that flees before his eyes. Shocked, he sets out in search of the truth about the island so dear to his grandfather. Upon discovering the ruined boarding school, he no longer has any doubts: the peculiar children really existed. But were they dangerous? Why did they live so secluded, hidden from everyone?
