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Ever since he was a child, Jacob formed a strong bond with his grandfather, who told him extraordinary stories about girls who could levitate and invisible boys. Soon after, his beloved grandfather dies, Jacob, now 16, receives a mysterious letter that leads him on trip to a remote part of Wales where his grandfather grew up. He will try and find out if the stories he grew up hearing are true or not.



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Ransom Riggs

I grew up in Florida, went to Kenyon College in Ohio, then film school at USC in LA, where I still live. I write books and screenplays, blog daily for mentalfloss. com, and make short films. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is my first novel. I'm really excited about it -- it was challenging and rewarding and I hope people like it. If you read that and like the found photographs in it, you might be interested in a book comprised entirely of found photographs that I have coming out January 2012 from HarperCollins. It's called Talking Pictures. You can find sneak peeks by doing a search for "mental floss talking pictures" (I included a number of images in blogs there) and I made a kinda-sorta book trailer for it, which is on my youtube page: Also, watch out for a Miss Peregrine book trailer, which I'm working on right now! I get to go to Belgium and film inside creepy abandoned chateaus, which I'm *really* looking forward to.



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