1. By: Ransom Riggs
Sydney Relihan
Reading-Roche
Class Period 3
5/11/12

2. Ransom Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland where he
decided that he wanted to be a farmer so he could drive tractors.
His mom then moved his family to a boring village in Florida
where he started to make up stories to pass the time. After
spending time with friends making videos in his backyard, Riggs
decided he wanted to be either a writer or a person who makes
movies. Today, he lives in Los Angeles, California where he does
both: he makes movies and writes novel of all different kinds.
http://www.ransomriggs.com/

3. When Jacob Portman was a young boy, his grandfather used to tell him about a
magical orphanage that he used to live in with his friends and the Bird. As Jacob grew up,
he no longer believed his grandfather’s stories. Jacob had to unravel the mysteries of his
grandfather’s past when Grandpa Portman was mysteriously murdered in the woods one day.
Following his grandfather’s last words, Jacob went to the island where Grandpa Portman
used to live when he was a child. Jacob went back in time and met peculiar children with
magical abilities. He became good friends with Emma, a peculiar who could conjure fire with
her bare hands. The headmistress, Miss Peregrine, got captured soon after. Jacob tried to
save Miss Peregrine using his newfound peculiar ability and the help of his friends. Will
they succeed? Will they stop the evil wights and hollows? Read this exciting adventure novel
to find out.

4. MAIN
Jacob Portman was a sixteen year old boy who was very close to his grandfather. When his
grandfather died, Jacob went to where his grandfather used to live to discover his secret. Jacob later
found out that he had the peculiar ability to be able to see wights just like Grandpa Portman did.
Emma Bloom was a peculiar who could conjure fire with her bare hands. She had been living with Miss
Peregrine for a long time. She was 88 years old, but even though she was very old, she looked and acted
young because of the loop. She was a good friend of Jacob’s grandpa and was kind to Jacob while he
stayed with the children.
Miss Peregrine was a ymbryne who could manipulate time and turn into a Peregrine Falcon. She
made the loop the children lived in and was the Headmistress of the home. She helped Jacob get through
tough times and was very caring towards her wards.
SUPPORTING
Millard Nullings was a peculiar who was invisible. He was 87 years old and had lived with Miss
Peregrine for a long time. He was kind to Jacob and was very useful in helping catch Dr. Golan and the
hollow.
Dr. Golan was a wight. A wight was a person who helped hollows (evil monsters). They had white eyes
without pupils. Dr. Golan started out as Jacob’s bus driver, yardman, and psychiatrist. Dr. Golan tried
to kill Jacob and Emma when they atemped to stop him. Golan also captured Miss Peregrine and other
ymbrynes.
Bronwyn was a peculiar who was super strong. She could lift almost anything and was Emma’s a good
friend. She helped to stop Dr. Golan and was nice to Jacob when she first met him.

5. INTRODUCTION
• Grandpa Portman told Jacob stories about the Peculiars and the orphanage.
•Grandpa Portman was mysteriously murdered in the woods.
•Jacob andACTION went to Cairnholm Island where Jacob searched for the old orphanage.
FALLING his father
Emma, Bronwyn, Jacob, and Millard battled Dr. Golan.
•
RISING ACTIONby Dr. Golan.
•Millard got shot
•Jacob found the orphanage but was very disappointed because it was empty and run down.
•Jacob killed Dr. Golan.
•Jacob accidently stumbledMiss Peregrinewherethe went back in time.
•Emma and Jacob rescued upon the loop from he wights, but the headmistress could not turn back into a bird so
•Jacob became good friends with the peculiar children who lived with Miss Peregrine in the loop. Peculiars were
the loop stopped resetting itself.
people with magical abilities.
•Jacob learned that there was a murder.
CONCLUSION
•Jacob the loop about hollows the house was destroyedpeople who worked for them called wights.
•Since learned did not reset, (evil monsters) and the by a bomb.
•Jacob discovered his peculiar ability – he decided tohollows. the children.
•Jacob said goodbye to his dad because he could see stay with
The children decided to go out into the normal world to try to stop the wights. They would leap frog to past loops
•
CLIMAXfind where the wights were hiding.
to try to
•Miss Peregrine was captured by wights and Jacob, Emma, Enoch, Bronwyn, and Millard went to stop them. The
group encounterd Dr. Golan, Jacob’s former psychiatrist who was actually a wight. They also fought and killed a
hollow.

6. inoculating – (v) to treat (a person or animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease:
“I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from
which I’d never recover – that these fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical
ambitions. . .”page 8.
lanai – (n) a porch or veranda: “He pushed back his lawn chair and went into the house, leaving me
alone on the screened-in lanai.” Page 10.
moniker – (n) a name: . . . “[I]n those humiliating seconds I foresaw the moniker “fairy boy” trailing
me for years and, rightly or not, I resented him for it.” Page 16.
banal – (adj.) so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring: . . . “[T]hey were monsters with
human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what
they are until it’s too late.” Page 17.
purge – (v) rid of an unwanted feeling, memory, or dondition, typically giving a sense of cathartic
release: “Dr. Golan was convinced that understanding them might help purge my awful dreams.”
Page 41.

7. Dr. Golan: Christian Bale
Miss Peregrine: Maggie Smith
Millard Jacob Portman: of Alexander Gould
Nullings: Voice Cameron Bright
Bronwyn: Isabelle Fuhrman
Emma Bloom: Skylar Samuels

8. I think the song “People are Strange” by The Doors is a good song to describe the peculiar
children in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The song talks about strange
people and strange is a synonym for peculiar. It also says that when people are strange,
no one remembers your name, just like how since the loop resets itself everyday and the
townspeople do not remember anything that happened ‘yesterday.’ It also talks about
how faces look ugly when you are strange and not all the peculiar’s have pretty abilities.
This song is a good song to describe Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
Click here to play “People are Strange”

9. Final Rating: 5 stars
I rated Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children a 5 out of 5 stars.
It was full of mysteries, adventures, and fun surprises. It also had great
characters, a creative setting, and an exciting plot. Overall, I would
recommend Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children to any reader
who enjoys a good fantasy book with exciting surprises.