The Desolations of Devil's Acre
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Series
Author: Ransom Riggs
Book 6 in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series
Pages: 512
Published: 2021
Age: 12+
The epic conclusion to Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs.
Jacob and his friends will face deadly enemies and race through history’s most dangerous loops in this thrilling page-turner. The Desolations of Devil's Acre is the newest installment, and final adventure, in the beloved Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.
The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face.
Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began—his grandfather’s house. Jacob doesn’t know how they escaped from V’s loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned.
After a narrow getaway from a blood- thirsty hollow, Jacob and Noor reunite with Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children in Devil’s Acre. The Acre is being plagued by desolations—weather fronts of ash and blood and bone—a terrible portent of Caul’s amassing army.
Risen from the Library of Souls and more powerful than ever, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains—deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones. If they can decipher its secret
About the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Series
Books in series order
- 1.Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(2011)
- 2.Hollow City(2014)
- 3.Library of Souls(2015)
- 4.A Map of Days(2018)
- 5.The Conference of the Birds(2020)
- 6.The Desolations of Devil's Acre(2021)
- +Miss Peregrine's Journal for Peculiar Children(2016)
- +Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders(2022)
- +Tales of the Peculiar(2016)
Reading age: 13+ years
This series should be read in order.
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in this quirky and surreal series which mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and its sequel, Hollow City, will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.