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BOOK REPORT

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SUBMITTED BY:

HANNIE ROSE DELA CRUZ

SUBMITTED TO:

PROF. CHERRY MAY TUMABIENE


MISS PEREGRINES
HOME FOR
PECULIAR
CHILDREN
AUTHOR OF THE BOOK JACOB PORTMAN

PLOT/SUMMARY ABRAHAM PORTMAN

CHARACTERS RANSOM RIGGS

REFLECTION

BACKROUND OF THE AUTHOR

MISS PEREGRINE

EMMA BLOOM
Hi, Im Ransom Riggs, I like to tell stories. under my arm and went out into the world -- and we type and travel and drink tea
Sometimes I tell them with words, to conquer the film festival circuit and then together and it's really quite wonderful.
sometimes with pictures, often with both. I Hollywood -- or at least that was the plan,
grew up on a farm on the Eastern shore of though it didn't quite work out that way. I
Maryland and also in a little house by the spent a few years writing scripts and taking
beach in Englewood, Florida where I got very meetings and getting not very far, trying any Jacob this young boy is saddened by the
tan and swam every day until I became half way I could to get noticed. All the while I was
strange death of his grandfather. With signs
fish. I started writing stories when I was writing: for five years I had a gig as a daily pointing to the supernatural, he travels to
young, on an old typewriter that jammed blogger for mentalfloss.com, and I also wrote
the children's home which housed his
and longhand on legal pads. When I was a for their magazine, contributed to a few grandfather when he was young.
little older I got a camera for Christmas and books they published through Harpercollins,
became obsessed with photography, and and wrote for a couple of other publications Emma This young girl finds Jacob and serves
when I was a little older still my friends and I here and there, as well. as a sidekick in his adventures. She is the one
came into possession of a half-broken video who lets him into the time loop and later
camera and began to make our own movies, helps Jacob with his hunt for the hollowgast.
starring ourselves, using our bedrooms and She's described by Jacob as being "strikingly
backyards for sets. I have loved writing All of which turned into an opportunity, to beautiful." Her peculiarity is the ability to
do some work for a small publisher who
stories and taking photographs and making spout flames from her hands.
knew my editors at mentalfloss. That was
movies ever since, and have endeavored to Quirk Books, who asked me if I was
do all three. interested in writing a book about Sherlock Miss Peregrine This woman runs an
Holmes for them. I jumped at the orphanage for children called peculiars who
opportunity. That was The Sherlock Holmes each have a unique power. For instance, one
Handbook. Next came Miss Peregrine's Home child is invisible and another has
After High School I went to Kenyon College, a for Peculiar Children, born out of my love for superhuman strength. She herself is a
very pretty and quite old by American vintage photography and bizarro stories, and shapeshifter who can become a bird. The
standards college in rural Ohio, where I I never looked back. I still love movies and I
novel's final conflict arises when she is
still make short films (here are some recent
studied literature and got a degree in kidnapped and kept in her bird form.
ones) and one day I will make a feature --
English. Then I fulfilled a long-held dream when the time and the material are right.
and went to film school at the University of These days, though, I'm loving being a Grandpa Portman/Abe Portman is Jacob's
Southern California in Los Angeles. I'd been novelist, a photo collector, and an occasional grandfather, who grew up in the children's
making films since the backyard- short filmmaker. I live in Los Angeles with home on the island of Cairnholm under the
masterpiece days of my childhood, but at my wife, the lovely and supervision of Miss Peregrine. While in the
USC I learned how to make them bigger and talented TaherehMafi -- who is also a writer, home, he developed a relationship with
and if you haven't read her lovely and Emma Bloom. Abe left the island and fought
better and shiny-looking. I graduated with
exciting Shatter Me books you're missing out
what I thought was a pretty slick thesis film in the army, eventually moving to America
and starting a new family. He dies at the very We see a flashback of Jake as a child with unconscious. He wakes up to find himself
beginning of the novel, but leaves Jacob with Abe telling him fantastical stories about being carried by a little girl named Bronwyn
the information he needs to find Miss encountering monsters and other oddities. (Pixie Davies), who possesses incredible
Peregrine and her time loop on Cairnholm. He would tell Jake about a group home for strength. Jake then meets the children that
children run by Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), Abe told him about - Emma (Ella Purnell), a
a mysterious Englishwoman who, along with girl who can manipulate air and must wear
Florida teen Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield) the other children there, have strange lead shoes to keep her from floating away;
feels he lives a mundane life. One day at abilities that she kept living with her.Jake's Olive (Lauren McCrostie), a girl with
work, he gets a phone call regarding his aunt gives him a book from Abe from Ralph pyrokineticabilites; Hugh (Milo Parker), a
grandfather Abe (Terence Stamp). Jake calls Waldo Emerson, which contains a postcard boy who has bees living inside him; Millard
Abe himself, and the old man sounds from Miss Peregrine welcoming him to (Cameron King), an invisible boy; and two
frightened and paranoid. Jake's supervisor return. Her home is on an island called masked twins (Joseph and Thomas Odwell).
Shelley (O-Lan Jones) gives him a ride to Cairnholm, located in Wales. With The children guide Jake through a cave, but
Abe's house. As they make it to Abe's house, encouragement from Dr. Golan, Jake he gets spooked and runs away.
Jake and Shelley see a man with white eyes convinces his parents to allow him to go
(Samuel L. Jackson) standing in the road there and visit Miss Peregrine. Jake returns to the pub and finds it filled
menacingly. Jake enters Abe's house to find it Jake travels with his father Franklin (Chris with customers. The manager doesn't let him
ransacked. Outside in the woods, Jake finds O'Dowd), who didn't have the best up and threatens him when the other
Abe's flashlight with blood on it. Abe is lying relationship with Abe, his father. On the ferry suspect Jake of being a spy. The peculiar
on the ground with his eyes missing. He is to the island, the two spot a peregrine falcon children arrive and intervene to get Jake out
conscious long enough to warn Jake of flying up above. Jake jokes that it must be of there. He quickly realized he is stuck in
something awful. Abe dies, and a monstrous Miss Peregrine herself, so he calls to her. the 1943 loop for now.
creature starts walking toward Jake. Shelley Upon arriving at the island, Jake and Jake is then brought to meet Miss Peregrine
emerges with her gun, and Jake alerts her to Franklin stay at an old pub that also has a herself. She introduces him to the remaining
the creature behind her. She starts shooting, room. Franklin then pays two local boys to children - Fiona (Georgia Pemberton), a girl
but she sees nothing. Later on, Jake visits his guide Jake to the side of the island that he who control plants; Claire (Raffiella
psychologist Dr. Golan (Allison Janney) to wants to see. When Jake gets there, he finds Chapman), a girl with a mouth in the back of
talk about how he's felt since his that the home has been destroyed. He her head; Horace (Hayden Keeler-Stone), a
grandfather's passing. He knows it was no returns to the pub disappointed, believing boy with prophetic dreams; and Enoch
accident, despite the coroner stating that Miss Peregrine and the children to be long (Finlay McMillan), who has the power to
Abe had a heart attack. dead. The next day, Jake goes back around to bring back the dead for a brief time. He
the home and finds a group of children there. shows off this talent using two small skeletal
He gets spooked and runs away, where he puppets with tiny hearts that fight each
ends up tripping and knocking himself other for a short moment. Enoch is jealous
because he likes Emma and knows Jake does
too, but Emma had feelings for Abe, and he letter that Abe wrote to Miss Peregrine the woods emerges, but it is only visible to
left long ago. warning her about someone named Mr. him. Miss Peregrine shoots the creature with
Miss Peregrine explains to Jake that they live Barron, and to tell Miss Avocet, another an arrow, and it falls perfectly into the
in a time loop, which keeps them from the headmistress of a home for Peculiars, to outline. Emma realizes that Jake's peculiarity
outside world but allows them to live in create a new loop immediately.The next is being able to see these monsters.Back at
peace. They are stuck on September 3, 1943, morning, Jake and Franklin hit the beach and the home, Emma brings Miss Peregrine her
during the WWII raids, moments before a meet an ornithologist (Rupert Everett) book to explain to Jake who these creatures
bomb would drop on the house and kill looking out for rare birds for a book he plans are. Barron and his cronies are Hollowgasts
everyone, but Miss Peregrine sets the clock on writing. (or just "Hollows"), a different group of
back to 24 hours earlier. They cannot live Jake later sneaks out while Franklin takes a Peculiars that hunt the good ones in order to
outside the loop, or else their years will nap so he can return to the home. Miss live beyond the loops for all eternity. Barron
catch up to them and they will die.Jake joins Peregrine is treating the bird, who is really performed an experiment using Miss Avocet
Miss Peregrine and the children for dinner. Miss Avocet, the same woman seen in due to her Ymbryne powers, but it backfired
Afterwards, they are treated to Horace's Horace's dream, and an Ymbryne just like and turned him and the other Hollows into
dreams that they watch like movies. They Miss Peregrine (meaning they can take the hideous monsters. They managed to return
see a woman (Judi Dench) being wheeled form of birds). Jake questions Miss Peregrine to their human forms by consuming the eyes
away by villainous men, as well as Jake and about Barron, but she avoids giving of Peculiars.
Emma looking like they're about to kiss answers.Jake then runs into Enoch and Olive. Miss Peregrine walks into a room where the
(making it super awkward in the room). Enoch brings Jake over to the room of Victor children are sitting by Miss Avocet, who has
After the show, Miss Peregrine brings the (Louis Davison), Bronwyn's brother who was taken her human form. Fearing that Barron
children outside and shows Jake how the killed by the same creature as Abe. His eyes will come after the children, she decides it is
loop works when German planes fly are missing, and Enoch reanimates him like a time to leave and find a new home and
overhead and drop a bomb, but she resets puppet to freak Jake out. loop.Jake returns by the beach and finds
the clock to 24 hours earlier, taking them Emma takes Jake to her secret hideout, Franklin worried sick. A wheelchair-bound
back to September 2nd. which is a sunken ship deep beneath the man that they had met earlier is found dead
Jake follows Emma into a cave asking ocean. She blows him an air bubble and then by the rocks with his eyes taken out. Jake
questions about everything he's just heard blows the water out of the ship. Emma runs away and is followed into the cave by
and seen, but Emma says there are some shows Jake photos of pale-eyed people, the ornithologist. He then takes the form of
questions she can't answer. A bird then flies including Barron, whom Jake recognizes as Dr. Golan before revealing himself to be
into the cave and hits the wall. Emma brings the man outside Abe's house the night he Barron. He turns his hand into a blade and
it back to the home to be treated.When Jake died. Afterwards, she brings Jake to watch holds it to Jake's throat in order to make him
returns to meet his dad, they are called over Miss Peregrine walk with her crossbow over do his bidding.
by a farmer whose sheep have all been killed. by a spot with a chalk outline of a creature. A
They return to the pub, and Jake finds a tall, eyeless monster like the one Jake saw in
Barron forces Jake to take him to the home. experiment with Miss Peregrine and other Jake as he tries to convince the Hollow who
Miss Peregrine finds them and tells the Ymbrynes. Jake and Emma lure some he really is, but he plucks out Barron's eyes
children to retreat for their safety, knowing Hollows outside toward the pier. and kills him. Enoch throws Jake the
that Barron is waiting for his Hollow friend Once the Hollows reach the pier, the children crossbow, which he uses to kill the
to go after them, and with Jake being able to fight back. They start throwing snowballs Hollow.The children then leave on the ship to
see them, he is their only hope for survival. and cotton candy at the Hollows to allow stay within their loop, but Jake knows it
She asks Jake to promise that he will look them to be seen. Enoch brings some means he cannot see them again.
after the children should anything happen to skeletons to life, which go after the Hollows Upon returning to Florida, Jake goes by Abe's
her. He agrees, and she turns into her bird and start slaying them. Bronwyn grabs a house and sees that he's still alive. He tells
form so that Barron may cage her.Jake and horse off the merry-go-round and hurls it at Abe all about his time with Miss Peregrine
Miss Avocet help keep the children hidden in a Hollow, throwing him into the water. The and the children. Abe gives Jake the Emerson
darkness for when the Hollow shows up. other children fight Barron and his two book, which contains a lot of money in it, for
Jake then answers the phone to hear a call Hollow friends in their lair. The male Hollow his "travels."Jake is running on the docks to
from Abe in 1943. Jake takes the time to say tries to freeze Bronwyn under a pool of catch up to the children's ship. He finds
he wished he could have been a better water, but Fiona stops him by throwing Emma and explains to her that he's had to go
grandson.As Miss Avocet is telling the seeds at him that sprout vines that wrap through different loops in different cities
children what to do, she is pulled through a around him. Olive frees Bronwyn, but the over different years, but she stops him and
wall by the Hollow. Jake guides the children Hollow starts to freeze Olive up. Enoch kisses him. As he joins them on their
to safety and fights the Hollow with Miss brings an elephant puppet to life and uses it adventure, Miss Peregrine flies by and stops
Peregrine's crossbow, but he misses every to crush the Hollow. The female Hollow is at a tower. She finds the children and flies
shot. Eventually, the German plane drops the turned to stone by the twins when they over to their ship.
bomb on the house, killing the Hollow. The remove their masks and stare at her. Enoch
loop then closes for good, and the children apologizes to Olive for not appearing to care
can never return to that home. for her as much when it looks like she's dead,
but she is revived and happy to hear what
The children work together to raise Emma's Enoch said.
ship to the surface so they may head over to
the Blackpool Tower, where there is another Jake and Emma attempt to fight Barron, but
loop. Since this loop was created in January he is immune to their attacks. Jake frees the
2016, Jake and Emma realize that if they kill Ymbrynes and pisses Barron off. Emma and
Barron there, they may be able to prevent Enoch find Jake, but Barron has also taken
Abe's death from happening. They all arrive Jake's form to trick them. Jake is able to
at the pier and go through a haunted house prove himself when he spots the last Hollow
where the Hollows are set to perform their walking behind them. He picks up Barron-
It's important to have a positive role model, This book is my all time favorite, as of now! I
whether it be your grandfather or Wolverine. like that it is very intense, so you don't want
Although we're not sure how positive it is to to put the book down! My favorite character
have a role model who tears things up with is Jacob because of how much work he puts
his claws. (Tell your Granddad to stop doing into his adventure, and he doesn't let anyone
that.) In Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar stop him. I can relate to him because I like to
Children, Jacob has the double bonus of adventure, and I like to learn more about my
looking up to his grandfather who also family from long ago. I think that this book is
happens to have superpowers. The problem different from any other book because of
is that as Jacob gets older, he stops believing how well it describes the peculiar children. I
Grandpa, and his admiration wanes. Jacob's think that it is very unique because all of the
need to make sure his grandfather is an strange pictures were found at antique sales,
honorable man worthy of his respect is a and they were real. At first I thought that I
major driving force throughout the story. wouldn't like it because of all the strange
Heck, without it, he never would have gone pictures. I am very excited to be able to
to the island in the first place. compare the book to the movie!

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