Get Ready To Meet The Next Generation Of Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children. Miriam is 12 years old. She is normal but her parents are not. Her mother is Emma, the girl with fire at her fingertips and her father is Jacob, the man who can see monsters. Her friends are not any less peculiar. There is Bret, the boy who can control bees and Peter, the boy who can see the future. One day, Miss Peregrine tells them that she has reconstructed the loop and is taking the children, for the 21st century is not safe. Crushed, Miriam discovers she inherited her mothers ability to control fire. Somethings are never really over.