Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

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In the book, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs it tells about how a boy named Jacob who has heard stories about children with powers from his grandfather. When Jacob’s Grandfather Dies and Jacob sees the monster that did it. After going to a doctor and getting mental help, he decides to try to find what island that his grandfather mentioned before he died. The theme of this book is mystery because Jacob is trying to find out what his grandfather wanted to tell him about before he died. In the beginning of the book, it tells how Jacob is working in a store that his father owns and he gets a call from his grandfather asking him franticly where the key to the room where his gun is. Jacob thinks that the stories that

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