The Recurring Cast
Character guide · 6 books · 2011 to 2021

Ransom Riggs

Young adultChildren’sYA fantasySpooky stories

Ransom Riggs built Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children around vintage photographs. Jacob Portman follows clues from his grandfather's stories to a Welsh island, where peculiar children live in a time loop, protected by a woman who can turn into a bird.

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Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

6 books · Set in invented worldsYA fantasySpooky stories
  1. 1Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children2011With Jacob PortmanBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Hollow City2014With Jacob PortmanBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Library of Souls2015With Jacob PortmanBuy on Amazon
  4. 4A Map of Days2018With Jacob PortmanBuy on Amazon
  5. 5The Conference of the Birds2020With Jacob PortmanBuy on Amazon
  6. 6The Desolations of Devil's Acre2021With Jacob PortmanBuy on Amazon

Characters

7 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

The peculiars