Miss Perrigrine's Home For Peculiar Children (348 pages)

This novel mixes fiction and photography, and author Ransom Riggs (yep, that's his name; can you believe it?!) has created a plot that brings World War II and today into one time warp. Jacob's grandfather always told him stories. Peculiar stories. Stories Jacob wasn't sure he believed, in spite of his grandfather's insistence that they were true. Then his grandfather dies quite mysteriously. Jacob got a glimpse of the killer, but no one believes him, and he is sent to a child psychiatrist. As many other bright children have done, he eventually plays the game, telling the doctor what he thinks the doctor wants to hear. It turns out that Jacob's grandfather was sent from Poland by his parents in order to escape the Nazi regime. People he didn't know hustled him across Europe to Wales where he ended up in Miss Peregrine's home. I can't begin to tell you the mystery that develops, or how Jacob ended up going to Wales with his father (who was a little peculiar himself- if you ask me-) and how once in Wales he begins to uncover his grandfather's stories which were really not so peculiar after all! You will adore the photographs and the story just transport you into another time and another place. Have fun with this one.