Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs · Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series · Grade 7-9 · Ages Ages 12 and up
Jacob has grown up hearing his grandfather’s strange stories about a special home on a faraway island. After a troubling event, Jacob travels there and discovers clues that make him wonder if those stories might be more real than he ever imagined.
Key vocabulary
Peculiar means unusual or different in an interesting way.
An orphanage is a place where children without parents may live and be cared for.
Dilapidated means old, broken, and in poor shape, like a house with cracked walls and sagging floors.
Skeptical means not sure something is true until you see proof.
Melancholy means a quiet, thoughtful kind of sadness.
To rummage means to search through things by moving them around.
A quarry is a big open pit where stone is dug out of the ground.
Tedious means boring because something takes a long time or repeats too much.