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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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Start date
May 1, 2012
Finish date
May 31, 2012
Why we're reading this
Won the BoM poll for May

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Falling for Books (Tia)
Aug 25, 2011 rated it really liked it
First Line: I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

Favorite Quote: Peculiar children are not always, or even usually, born to peculiar parents, and peculiar parents do not always, or even usually, bear peculiar children.

My thoughts:
I really liked this book! I wasn’t sure how I would feel about it. This book seemed so different from anything else I had read previously. I love the incorporation of the pictures into the book. It was grea
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Jen Rothmeyer
May 22, 2014 rated it really liked it
Love the inspiration the photographs provided for this story and the way they are melded. It brings to mind a glorious Frankenstein. There are aspects of X-Men and the movie Big Fish throughout.
alana
Mar 08, 2012 rated it it was amazing
I love how this story relates to using found photos as inspiration for creative writing! The result is a fun fantasy read with some creepy characters and haunting images.
J
Jun 02, 2011 marked it as to-read
Cathy
Jul 10, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Jul 21, 2011 rated it liked it
Shelves: read-in-2011
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Shawna
Nov 07, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: teen
Christy
Nov 24, 2011 rated it it was ok
Shelves: young-adult
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Ajala Habib
Mar 09, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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Mar 23, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: library, kindle, 2013
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