This is a story about a time traveling boy named Jacob who leads a group of peculiar
children with supernatural abilities and Miss Peregrine, their teacher and caregiver who
is stuck in bird form, from Cairnholm Island to Wales during World War II to escape the
wights who are trying to kill them.
Among the children are Emma, who controls fire, Bronwyn, who has super strength, Enoch,
who can transfer life between things, Horace, who has premonitions in dreams, Hugh, who
controls bees, Olive, who can float, Fiona, who can control plants, and Claire, who has
two mouths.
When they arrive on shore, they only manage to bring with them a trunk that contains a
book of peculiar tales.
The wights chase the children, but they hide in the woods.
The children find a time loop at a nearby lake and on the other side of the time loop,
they encounter a hollowgast, a monstrous creature that likes to eat peculiars.
The children kill the hollowgast and meet Addison, a peculiar dog who is intelligent.
Addison tells the children that Miss Wren, another powerful peculiar, flew to London
to help other peculiars from hollowgast and wight attacks.
Addison warns the children that if Miss Peregrine doesn’t get help soon, she’ll permanently
become a bird.
Fiona and Claire decide to stay with Addison as the rest of the children travel back through
the time loop to go to London to find Miss Wren for help.
On their way to London, the children encounter a traveling group of gypsies.
The gypsies help hide the children from a search party of wights.
The children get to the nearest train station, but are captured by wights, except for Hugh,
who hides, and Miss Peregrine, who makes it on the train in the trunk.
The children are taken to a small cabin by the wights and are questioned as to the whereabouts
of Miss Peregrine.
Suddenly, Hugh comes back to rescue the children, summoning a swarm of bees to attack and kill
the wights.
The children then make their way to London by train.
When the children arrive in London, the train station is busy and crowded.
After failing to get help from any peculiars over the phone, the children head to the heart
of the city to avoid any hollowgasts and to find peculiar pigeons for help in finding
Miss Wren.
As the city is continuously bombed by the Germans, the children end up at a large cathedral,
where they find a time loop and meet Melina, a girl with telekinetic powers, Winnie, her
peculiar pigeon, and the Bone brothers, little boys who see using echolocation.
Bombs continue to explode around the children as they run away from two pursuing hollowgasts.
The children hide in a nearby house, where they meet two sisters, Sam, a peculiar girl
who can regenerate her body, and Esme.
As the two hollowgasts enter the house, a bomb explodes, killing the hollowgasts and
destroying the structure of the house.
The children are unhurt because they are wearing bulletproof sweaters and Sam and Esme remain
safe, though decide not to join the children to find Miss Wren.
Winnie the pigeon leads the children through another time loop, which takes them to a carnival.
After watching a sideshow at the carnival, the children walk to a building that is encased
in ice.
There, they encounter Miss Wren, who takes them inside the protection of the ice building,
and explains that she’s been rescuing peculiars and hiding them in the building since she
arrived in London.
The children meet Althea, who has the ability to produce ice.
Miss Wren is happy to see Miss Peregrine, even if only in bird form, and says that she’ll
need time to fix her.
The children meet the other peculiars in the building, including a clown, a contortionist,
and a snake charmer.
They exam a few of the peculiars in the building receiving medical attention and determine
that the wights are extracting peculiar powers and using them on hollowgast, which allows
these evolved hollowgast to travel through time loops.
The children decide to join in the fight against the hollowgast, except Emma tells Jacob that
when Miss Peregrine is revived, he should go back to his time and he reluctantly agrees.
The next day, when Miss Peregrine is about to transform back into her human form, an
imposter, Miss Peregrine’s brother, Caul, appears.
Caul says that it's all been a trap and that the real Miss Peregrine has already been captured.
Althea is killed and the rest of the children are captured by the wights.
They are all taken through a time loop that brings them back to Jacob’s time.
The children are loaded into a train car, but Emma and Jacob escape.
A sole hollowgast approaches Emma and Jacob as Addison appears and drags them to safety
in a phone booth.
In the end, as the hollowgast attacks them, Jacob speaks to the hollowgast in its native
tongue and it backs down.