| Description |
444 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates at the end : portraits and illustraitons (black and white; color on the plates at the end) ; 21 |
| Note |
First published in English as: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. |
| Summary |
"Jacob Portman, 16 ans, écoute depuis son enfance les récits fabuleux de son grand-père. Ce dernier, un juif polonais, a passé une partie de sa vie sur une minuscule île du pays de Galles, où ses parents l'avaient envoyé pour le protéger de la menace nazie. Le jeune Abe Portman y a été recueilli par Miss Peregrine Faucon, la directrice d'un orphelinat pour enfants "particuliers" . Selon ses dires, Abe y côtoyait une ribambelle d'enfants doués de capacités surnaturelles, censées les protéger des "Monstres". Un soir, Jacob trouve son grand-père mortellement blessé par une créature qui s'enfuit sous ses yeux. Bouleversé, Jacob part en quête de vérité sur l'île si chère à son grand-père. En découvrant le pensionnat en ruines, il n'a plus aucun doute : les enfants particuliers ont réellement existé. Mais étaient-ils dangereux ? Pourquoi vivaient-ils ainsi reclus, cachés de tous ? Et s'ils étaient toujours en vie, aussi étrange que cela puisse paraître..." -- Back cover |
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"Sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman has listened to his grandfather's fabulous stories since his childhood. The latter, a Polish Jew, spent part of his life on a tiny island in Wales, where his parents sent him to protect him from the Nazi threat. Young Abe Portman was taken in by Miss Peregrine Faucon, the director of an orphanage for "special" children. According to him, Abe rubbed shoulders with a host of children endowed with supernatural abilities that were supposed to protect them from "Monsters". One evening, Jacob finds his grandfather mortally wounded by a creature that flees before his eyes. Upset, Jacob sets off in search of the truth about the island so dear to his grandfather. When he discovered the boarding school in ruins, he no longer had any doubts: special children really existed. But were they dangerous? Why did they live in seclusion, hidden from everyone? What if they were still alive, strange as it sounds ..." -- Translaiton of the French synopsis |
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In French. |
| Subject |
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
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Grandparent and child -- Florida -- Fiction.
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Haunted places -- Fiction.
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Islands -- Wales -- Fiction.
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Storytelling -- Florida -- Fiction.
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Gifted children -- Wales -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Magic -- Fiction.
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Adolescents -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
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Lieux hantés -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
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Îles -- Pays de Galles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
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Wales. |
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French language materials.
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Récits d'horreur. |
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Roman fantastique. |
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Histoires de fantômes. |
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Roman occulte. |
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Horror fiction. |
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French language materials.
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Fantasy fiction. |
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Ghost stories. |
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Occult fiction. |
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Paranormal fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Ghost stories.
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Occult fiction.
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| Added Author |
Dries, Sidonie Van den, translator.
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| ISBN |
2747072231 |
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9782747072236 |
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