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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Teen Book Club

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Discussion Questions

1. What do you think of the 1^st person narration?
2. How do the photographs add to the story?
3. Do you like the idea of a grandfather like Grandpa Portman?
4. What do you think of the explanation of Grandpa Portman’s stories being so fantastic because he escaped the Holocaust?
5. When we meet Jacob at 15, he’s trying to get fired from his job at the family company, how does this shape your perception of him?
6. Does Jacob’s reaction to his grandfather’s death make sense?
7. What do you think of taking Jacob to help clean out the grandfather’s house and not letting him keep anything?
8. Do you like Jacob?
9. Would you go and explore the abandoned children’s home alone?
10. How would you react to traveling into the past?
11. What do you think of the idea of the peculiars?
12. Would you want to exist in a time loop?
13. What do you think of Miss Peregrine?
14. Who is your favorite character?
15. What do you think of Emma and Abe’s relationship?
16. Were you surprised by who the wight was?
17. What did you think of the battle between the children and the wight?
18. Did you like the book?
19. Would you read more in the series?

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