‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ turns 10: A modern exploration narrative

The bestselling young adult novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs turns 10 years old this month. This visual storytelling masterpiece has always been difficult to define, genre-wise. It takes place in our world, but a version…

‘The Desolation of Devil’s Acre’ review: Ransom Riggs gives a satisfying ending to his ‘peculiar’ series

The Desolation of Devil’s Acre, the last installment in Ransom Riggs’ revolutionary Miss Peregrine’s series, ties all loose ends and will leave longtime readers feeling content to finally say goodbye to their favorite characters.  V, the mysterious figure who is…

Book Review: The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs

Once again, Ransom Riggs delivers on rich world-building and unexpected suspense in The Conference of the Birds, the latest addition to the Miss Peregrine’s series.  Diving back into this series always feels like coming home for me. It just gives…

Movie Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs wrote his book Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children around a set of vintage photos he had found at various flea markets. Each photo had children in them, but there was something, well peculiar about them — one girl floated inches above…

Top Creepy Reads for Halloween

Tis the season of ghosts, ghouls and garish shades of orange – Halloween month, of course. In spooky celebration style, we’ve rounded up a selection of our top creepy reads. Most of them are recent(ish) releases to boot, so even if you’ve…

Keep YA Weird Giveaway: The Best and Weirdest Young Adult Books

March is “Keep YA Weird” Month. Inspired by the release of Andrew Smith’s new book, The Alex Crow, as well as the paperback release ov Smith’s super weird (but super awesome) Grasshopper Jungle. We love weird YA, and we’re happy that it’s here to stay.

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…