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A map of days: v.4 : Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735232143
- ISBN: 0735232148
- ISBN: 9780735231498
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Physical Description:
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480 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour map ; 22 cm - Publisher: New York : Dutton Books, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 2 / 5.0
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| Subject: | Voyages and travels -- Fiction Grandfathers -- Fiction Young adult fiction Florida -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Paranormal fiction. |
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- 24 of 25 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kaslo and District Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 25 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Kaslo and District Public Library | YA RIG (Text) | 35134000425187 | Young Adult | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2018 September #1
Though the wights were defeated in Library of Souls? (2015), there is much work to be done to rebuild the peculiar world. Prime among these tasks is learning to blend in with "normals," so Miss Peregrine and her crew have come to Jacob, in modern-day Florida, for lessons. These have barely begun when they stumble upon a secret bunker in Abe's old house, filled with information about his career hunting hollows in America. This sparks an unshakable desire in Jacob to follow in his grandfather's footsteps, catapulting his clandestine mission to save Noor, a powerful peculiar teen, with Emma, Millard, Enoch, and Bronwyn. Peculiar America has a Wild West flavor, ruled by gangs and lawlessness. Danger dogs their heels as they follow clues to Noor and travel through time loops where racism and prejudice still reign. Riggs reinvigorates his best-selling series, expanding the peculiar world and history, while drawing parallels to contemporary hot-button issues. As always, old photos add atmosphere (and some color this time), and the tease of a prophecy will have readers on tenterhooks. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: This series is a big deal! Get a bunker's worth. Grades 8-12. Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2018 September #2
The victory of Jacob and his fellow peculiars over the previous episode's wights and hollowgasts turns out to be only one move in a larger game as Riggs (Tales of the Peculiar, 2016, etc.) shifts the scene to America. Reading largely as a setup for a new (if not exactly original) story arc, the tale commences just after Jacob's timely rescue from his decidedly hostile parents. Following aimless visits back to newly liberated Devil's Acre and perfunctory normalling lessons for his magically talented friends, Jacob eventually sets out on a road trip to find and recruit Noor, a powerful but imperiled young peculiar of Asian Indian ancestry. Along the way he encounters a semilawless patchwork of peculiar gangs, syndicates, and isolated small communitiesâmany at loggerheads, some in the midst of negotiating a tentative alliance with the Ymbryne Council, but all threatened by the shadowy Organization. The by-now-tangled skein of rivalries, romantic troubles, and family issues continues to ravel amid bursts of savage violence and low comedy ("I had never seen an invisible person throw up before," Jacob writes, "and it was something I won't soon forget"). A fresh set of found snapshots serves, as before, to add an eldritch atmosphere to each set of incidents. The cast defaults to white but includes several people of color with active roles. Not much forward momentum but a tasty array of chills, thrills, and chortles. (Horror/Fantasy. 12-14) Copyright Kirkus 2018 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2018 November
Copyright 2018 School Library Journal.Gr 6 Upâ Riggs continues the adventures of Miss Peregrine's Peculiars and brings them to a brave new world: the present-day U.S. After surviving the events that took place inLibrary of Souls , the children arrive in Florida and begin a crash course in normalization by navigating modern malls and grocery stores. Clues left by Jacob's grandfather Abe are soon discovered and that sets the group on a dangerous covert mission across American Peculiardom. Readers new to the series will notice similarities between the Peculiars and Professor X's mutant X-men, and the challenges they face can serve as starting points for discussions on timely topics, such as immigration and acceptance. As in the previous books, found snapshot photographs illustrate the text, offering a refreshing confirmation that the Peculiars are among usâand have been all along.VERDICT Riggs's latest installment is a fast-paced and compelling addition to this unique mythology. Recommended for all libraries.âBilly Parrott, New York Public Library
