Peregrine's Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Jacob Portman, an ordinary teenager with an ordinary family, works an ordinary job. The only peculiarity in Jacob’s life is his grandfather’s stories. The stories are set at a children’s home; its residents are unusual people. Jacob’s grandfather, Abe, also, talks about monsters with tentacles for tongues. As a child, Jacob believes the stories; however, as he grows older, he thinks they are fairy tales.

One day, Aber calls Jacob and tells him about a key and exclaims that monsters are out to get him. Jacob doesn’t believe his grandfather’s fairy tales. He thinks the stories are creations of his grandfather’s dementia. Nevertheless, he goes to his Abe’s house to check on

In the present, an old man and some sheep are slaughtered. Jacobs goes back into the time loop and tells Miss Peregrine. She believes the deaths are caused by a wight, a monster controlled by the hollowgast. Jacob, Emma and some of the children make a plan to go outside the time loop to stop the hollowgast. This is super dangerous, because if they stay away too long, they will turn their age in present time.

In the present, Jacob and her children find the dead man. One of the peculiar children, Enoch has the power to bring people back to life using the hearts of animals. Enoch revives the man, but not before the hollowgast finds them. The hollowgast tell Jacob it has followed him his whole life. They had been his 8th grade bus driver, his neighbor, and his therapist, Dr. Golan. They made a run for it and escape but not before Jacob kills the wight, or at least he thinks he did.

Upon arriving back at Miss Peregrine’s house, Jacob discovers that the wight is not dead and has kidnapped Miss Peregrine and some of the children. Without Miss Peregrine, the time loop couldn't reset. The day will not repeat itself. This means that the bomb is going off on September 3, 1940. Miss Peregrine has been taken out to sea. Jacob and his friends don't have a boat, so they