Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children By: Alma LaFay Peregrine

I have only read half of this book so I'll only be writing a summary of the first part. The main character in the story is a sixteen year old boy named Jacob Portman. As a child Jacob grew up with fairy tales about children who could disappear in mid air and monsters with eyes the color of coal with tentacles springing from their mouths. As a child Jacob believed the stories told by his grandfather but soon grew to doubt them. Until the day that Jacob's grandfather died suspiciously. As his grandfather slowly faded away his last words were a confusing quest for Jacob. So off Jacob went to find the truth about his grandfather's past, a past hidden with in a remote island. What Jacob didn't know was that the fairy tales once told to him as a child would reveal themselves to him as being true There is indeed a girl who can make fire from within herself and a boy who is completely invisible. These children are known as peculiar and have been in hiding for thousands of years from monsters known as the hollows.

The conflict in the story is that the hollows have been threatening the existence of the peculiar race. All these children who have been separated from their non peculiar families are being hunted down. The monsters "Awful hunched-over ones with rotting skin and black eyes" had killed the only person that Jacob truly felt that understood him, his grandfather.