Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Themes

When you hear the word peculiar, what do you think of? Strange? Unusual? Quirky? In the case of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, we have to add supernatural to the list. If you've so mu...

We're kind of required to talk about this theme because the word home is in the title of the book. It's not Miss Peregrine's Basketball Court for Peculiar Children or Miss Peregrine's Restaurant fo...

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a book that, like Gretchen Wieners' hair, is full of secrets. And with secrets always comes betrayal. These two go hand-in-hand with each other becaus...

The cover of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is creepy, so you have to be brave just to read it. And some of the photos inside are just darn scary, like the Santa one that belongs on th...

Believe it or not, people were editing their photos way before Photoshop. Check out some of these vintage photos from as far back as the mid-1800s. The pictures of ghosts, men juggling their own he...

Identity is a major theme in any young adult novel. Most young adults are trying to figure out what kind of no-longer-young adults they want to be. What college to go to, what career to pursue, who...

Check this definition of peculiar out: Peculiar comes from the Latin peculiaris, meaning one's own, or personal. In English, it originally meant belonging to one person, private, like your fondness...

It's important to have a positive role model, whether it be your grandfather or Wolverine. Although we're not sure how positive it is to have a role model who tears things up with his claws. (Tell...