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The Story Of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

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Abraham Portman, grandfather of Jacob Portman, was born peculiar, and Jewish during the Holocaust. Being peculiar was not something that was admired, and they were not held in high regard. Fleeing German Nazis, Abraham took refuge at Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children, until the home was bombed on September 3, 1940. Yet, somehow there are signs they are still alive. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, Jacob Portman ventures to the island of Cairnholm to seek more information on his grandfather. With nothing but a few old pictures, a letter, and the memory of his grandfathers strange last word to guide him, Jacob Manages to find the children, but not where you would expect. He finds them living still in
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