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The book I read is Hollow City: The second novel of Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children by Ransom Riggs. It is a horror story about a group of kids with special abilities trying to help their headmistress turn back into her human form. It is told form the perspective of Jacob Portman, a kid from present day Florida, the other kids have been in a time loop that has preserved them for many centuries. The kids and their abilities are as follows(as written in the books character description): Jacob Portman-Our hero, who can see and sense hollowgast; Emma Bloom- A girl who can make fire with her hands, formerly involved witch Jacob’s grandfather; Abraham Portman(deceased)- Jacob’s grandfather, killed by a hollowgast; Bronwyn Bruntley- An unusually

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