Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, 300: Rise of an Empire and Penny Dreadful actress Eva Green has entered into negotiations to star in Tim Burton‘s next project, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

The movie is based on the book of the same name from author Ransom Riggs, which follows a 16-year-old boy who, after a family tragedy, finds himself trying to help protect a group of orphans with special abilities from creatures known as “hollows.” Green would play the title character, Miss Peregrine, who watches over the orphans.

Continue below for more and to check out a trailer for the book.

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Written by Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) with illustrations by Eugene Smith, this handbook from Quirk Books focuses on the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and the skills he employed to solve all those mysteries. We all know how great Holmes was at deductive reasoning, but he could also pick a lock and crack a safe; defend himself against physical attacks; and, of course, fake his own death, and thanks to The Sherlock Holmes Handbook, you can, too!

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Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle Edition
Written by Ransom Riggs
Quirk Books
Cover Price: $17.99

While I’ve never made a bag of bones about my fondness for the work of Stephen King, it’s understandable that not everyone shares my appreciation for his books. With Halloween around the corner, bibliophiles looking for something to get them into the spirit of the supernatural season might enjoy the book Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children.

Written by Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children was published in 2011 by the aptly-named Quirk Books, and fits in perfectly with the publishing company’s growing library of oddball titles, among them Wedding Dogs, Lovecraft Middle School, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Night of the Living Trekkies, and William Shakespeare’s Star Wars.

Without giving away too much, Miss Peregrine’s tells the story of a young boy named Jacob who loves the tales told to him by his grandfather, Abe, a WWII veteran and Jewish refugee.