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Grandpa tells the stories
The grandfather in the story tells his grandson, Jacob Portman about stories from when he is younger and in an oprhanage. Although the stories seem to be fake, Jacob learns the secrets of the unknown, -
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Grandpa becomes ill
After hearing some of the things about hiss grandfathers past, Jacob decides he wants to learn more. His grandpa is really old though and tends to lose some of his memory. One day while visiting his grandfather, he discovers that his grandpa died while try to follow a "monster" into the woods. -
After the funeral.
After the funeral, the family had to clean the home of Jacob's grandpa. Jacob comes across a box full of pictures from the stories he told about the peculiar kids in the orphanage where he used to live on the Welish Island. -
Summer vacation
Jacob had to decide whether or not to go to his uncle's house in Texas or to the Welish Island where his grandfather's orphanage used to be to learn more about the children in the pictures. He decides that he wants to go learn about his grandfather's past. Him and his father take that summer to discover some peculiar things on that island. -
The Peregrine
On the island, Jacob discovered that his grandfather was a child refugee from WWII when the kids are to exacuate from there home. His parents were killed during the war. While sleeping he has a dream that the mother who was head of the orphanage was named Miss Peregrine because she was able to shape shift into that kind of bird. Like other child in the orphanage they were taken into that home because that were often found "peculiar." -
Finds the home
In a rush, he is guided into the forest where he find a seperate little town that was destroyed by a bomb that was dropped. There was a huge hole in the roof of the home. The thing was that inside the room there was a trunk, inside the trunk there were pictures that had the same children in the pictures he found in his grandpa's house. -
Meets some new people
Jacob meets his grandfather's childhood friends. After telling them that he is the grandson of there friend he has the bad job of telling them that he had passed away. They cried but wanted to introduce Jacob to Miss Peregrine. -
They kidnap him
Like clock work there is a loud siren and crash. This is about the time the bomb ran into the house. But everyone acted so normal like it was okay. This happened about three times because he was there for three days. -
Time difference
There was a huge time difference. Jacob thought he had been away from his dad for three days, but he was only away for a couple of hours.... -
Jacob
Jacob enjoys hanging out with the other peculiar children, such as Millard, who is invisible, and Bronwyn, who has incredible strength. -
Strange stories
Then Jacob is told some mysterious stories of strange killings in the pub he's staying at, and warns the peculiar children. When they tell Jacob he is the only one who can see the "hollows" or "hollowgasts", the monsters that killed Jacob's grandfather, Jacob knows he is the only hope they have for safety. -
They kill the Hollow
Jacob and some of the peculiar children encounter a hollow which Jacob kills. -
Kidnapped
Upon return to the Miss Peregrine's home, they find that Miss Peregrine has been kidnapped. -
Cannot return
The children rescue Miss Peregrine but she is in bird form and cannot change back to human form. -
Looking for time
At the end of the book, the peculiar children look for another time loop they can stay in because their current one has been destroyed
