{"product_id":"hollow-city-isbn-9781594746123","title":"Hollow City","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo find a cure for Miss Peregrine, their beloved headmistress, Jacob Portman and his peculiar friends journey through a time loop to London, 1940—the peculiar capital of the world \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and the rest of the peculiar children are fleeing the malevolent  wights following them. Miss Peregrine is the only one who can help, but as she is trapped in bird form, the children must take a time loop to World War II London in search of a cure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, the children encounter new allies and a menagerie of peculiar animals, but hideous surprises and betrayals lurk around every corner. And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComplete with dozens of newly discovered (and thoroughly mesmerizing) vintage photographs, the second chapter of the beloved \u003ci\u003ePeculiar Children \u003c\/i\u003eseries will enchant readers of all ages. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was blown away. . . . \u003ci\u003eHollow City \u003c\/i\u003eis fantastic.”—USAToday.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A worthy follow-up, and as addictive a read as the first.”—\u003ci\u003eHypable \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A perfect blend of creepiness and thoughtfulness.”—\u003ci\u003ePopMatters \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ideal for fans of Neil Gaiman and Daniel Kraus, \u003ci\u003eHollow City \u003c\/i\u003eblends fantasy and horror into a world that will engross readers and leave them eager for more.”—\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness for Readers\u003c\/i\u003e“I was blown away...\u003ci\u003eHollow City \u003c\/i\u003eis fantastic.”—\u003ci\u003eUSAToday.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A worthy follow-up, and as addictive a read as the first.”—\u003ci\u003eHypable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eHollow City\u003c\/i\u003e mixes spooky vintage photos and action-packed storytelling to continue the story of Jacob Portman and his fellow “peculiars” as they travel through time to war-torn London.”—Dan Kois, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A perfect blend of creepiness and thoughtfulness.”—\u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A stunning achievement… \u003ci\u003eHollow City\u003c\/i\u003e is even richer than Riggs’s imaginative debut, \u003ci\u003eMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.\u003c\/i\u003e”—\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “What makes the series soar, however, is not the world-building, as intriguing as it is, but the heartfelt intensity of the emotions.”—\u003ci\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Ideal for fans of Neil Gaiman and Daniel Kraus, \u003ci\u003eHollow City\u003c\/i\u003e blends fantasy and horror into a world that will engross readers and leave them eager for more.”—\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness for Readers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A tasty adventure for any reader with an appetite for the…peculiar.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “New readers of the series will find this novel a treat...Fans of the first title will find this book a treasure. The only downside: waiting for the third installment to find out what happens to Jacob and his peculiar friends.”—\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Riggs has created a fresh and original world in these Peregrine novels, with likable, quirky characters and a very readable style.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003eXpress Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eLooking for Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePaper Towns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Readers searching for the next Harry Potter may want to visit \u003ci\u003eMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children\u003c\/i\u003e.”—\u003ci\u003eCNN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Riggs deftly moves between fantasy and reality, prose and photography to create an enchanting and at times positively terrifying story.”—\u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “I read all of the \u003ci\u003eMiss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children\u003c\/i\u003e books and I loved them.”—Florence of \u003ci\u003eFlorence + The Machine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[A] thrilling, Tim Burton-esque tale with haunting photographs.”—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today Pop Candy \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “With its \u003ci\u003eX-Men: First Class\u003c\/i\u003e-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder \u003ci\u003eMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children\u003c\/i\u003e has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+”—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “You'll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It's a mystery, and you'll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”—\u003ci\u003eSeventeen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This peculiar parable is pure perfection.”—\u003ci\u003eJustine \u003c\/i\u003emagazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “One of the coolest, creepiest YA books.”—\u003ci\u003ePopSugar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRansom Riggs\u003c\/b\u003e is the #1\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children novels. Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida. He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the best-selling author Tahereh Mafi, and their family.     We rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to stare frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be. We were ten children and one bird in three small and unsteady boats, rowing with quiet intensity straight out to sea, the only safe harbor for miles receding quickly behind us, craggy and magical in the blue-gold light of dawn. Our goal, the rutted coast of mainland Wales, was somewhere before us but only dimly visible, an inky smudge squatting along the far horizon.\u003cbr\u003e     We rowed past the old lighthouse, tranquil in the distance, which only last night had been the scene of so many traumas. It was there that, with bombs exploding around us, we had nearly drowned, nearly been torn apart by bullets; that I had taken a gun and pulled its trigger and killed a man, an act still incomprehensible to me; that we had lost Miss Peregrine and got her back again—snatched from the steel jaws of a submarine—though the Miss Peregrine who was returned to us was damaged, in need of help we didn’t know how to give. She perched now on the stern of our boat, watching the sanctuary she’d created slip away, more lost with every oar stroke.\u003cbr\u003e     Finally we rowed past the breakwater and into the great blank open, and the glassy surface of the harbor gave way to little waves that chopped at the sides of our boats. I heard a plane threading the clouds high above us and let my oars drag, neck craning up, arrested by a vision of our little armada from such a height: this world I had chosen, and everything I had in it, and all our precious, peculiar lives, contained in three splinters of wood adrift upon the vast, unblinking eye of the sea.\u003cbr\u003e     Mercy.","brand":"Quirk Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299907653861,"sku":"NP9781594746123","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594746123.jpg?v=1767729139","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/hollow-city-isbn-9781594746123","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}