Claim: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a young adult fantasy book.
Evidence: Miss Peregrine 's Home for Peculiar Children is a dark fantasy debut novel by American author Ransom Riggs.
This young adult book was originally intended to be a picture book featuring photographs Riggs had collected , but on the advice of an editor at Quirk Books , he used the photographs as a guide from which to put together a narrative.