Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is a wonderful story of wanting to belongand the power of connection.
Jacob Copeland's grandfather always told fantastical stories and Jacob as a child always believed them. As he grew older, however, his belief in these stories diminished and eventually he hardly believed them at all, chalking them up to stories his grandfather told to gloss over the harsh realities of his childhood.
When his grandfather dies Jacob, at 16, is brokenhearted and lost. Terrible dreams and his grandfather's last words haunt him. His parents send him to a therapist, but nothing seems to help. Eventually he convinces his parents to let him visit the island where his grandfather was sent to escape the Nazis.
Once there Jacob enters the fantastical world of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children and his life will never be the same.
The ending of the book clearly opens the door for the next chapter, which according to Amazon will be out in 2013. I will be eager to see what happens to Jacob and his peculiar friends from Miss Peregrine's.
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