Growing up, Jacob listened to the tales his grandfather spun about an orphanage for "peculiar" children, along with a handful of strange pictures that formed the base of his stories as evidence.

Eventually deciding that floating children and invisible friends were nothing more than a fantasy, the stories stopped. Until his grandfather's mysterious and violent death sent him on a journey to see for himself where his grandfather grew up, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

I received this book for World Book Night 2014, and it was nothing like I expected. Imaginative and extraordinary happenings wrapped in strange and unsettling vintage pictures set the tone for an adventure far larger than either Jacob or I expected.