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Zusatztext “A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns “Readers searching for the next Harry Potter may want to visit Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children .”— CNN “Riggs deftly moves between fantasy and reality, prose and photography to create an enchanting and at times positively terrifying story.”— Associated Press “I read all of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children books and I loved them.”—Florence of Florence + The Machine “[A] thrilling, Tim Burton-esque tale with haunting photographs.”— USA Today Pop Candy “With its X-Men: First Class -meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+”— Entertainment Weekly “Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”— People “You'll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It's a mystery, and you'll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”— Seventeen “Delightfully weird.”— Good Housekeeping “One of the coolest, creepiest YA books.”— PopSugar Informationen zum Autor Ransom Riggs is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children novels. Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida. He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the best-selling author Tahereh Mafi, and their family. Klappentext The #1 New York Times best-selling series. A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children! an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens! a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales! where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways! it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. ??A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography! Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults! teens! and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. "A tense! moving! and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story."-John Green! New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars "With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line! David Lynchian imagery! and rich! eerie detail! it's no wonder Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+"-Entertainment Weekly "'Peculiar' doesn't even begin to cover it. Riggs' chilling! wondrous novel is already headed to the movies."-People "You'll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It's a mystery! and you'll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself."-Seventeen Prologue I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After. Like many of the extraordinary thing...
