Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / Ransom Riggs / 351 pages

Sixteen year old Jacob Portman's grandfather was sent by his family to Miss Peregrine's school to escape the Germans during World War II.  His entire family met death at the hands of the Germans, and Jacob believes that this tragedy has affected his grandfather's mind.  He describes the school as a magical place and the pictures he shows Jacob support this contention if they have not been doctored as Jacob suspects.  His grandfather also describes horrible monsters and may have met an untimely death by them.  His grandfather's death leads him to psychotherapy and a journey with his father to the site of the infamous school.  This a most unusual read peppered with actual photographs of peculiar children.