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Killing Mr. Griffin

by Lois Duncan
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From beloved author Lois Duncan comes a frightening novel about a group of students who set out to teach their malicious teacher a lesson — only to learn that one of them could be a killer.
Mr. Griffin is the strictest teacher at Del Norte High, with a penchant for endless projects and humiliating students. Even straight-A student Susan can't believe how mean he is to her crush, Dave, and to the charismatic Mark Kinney. So when Dave asks Susan to help a group of students teach Mr. Griffin a lesson of their own, she goes along with them. After all, it's a harmless prank, right?
But things don't go according to plan. When one "accident" leads to another and people begin to die, Susan and her friends must face the awful truth: one of them is a killer.

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  • Release date

    October 5, 2010

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

      • ISBN: 9780316182669

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780316182645

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780316182645
      • File size: 3378 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.8
    • Lexile® Measure: 720
    • Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    • Text Difficulty: 3

  • Reviews

    • School Library Journal

      September 13, 2024

      Gr 8 Up-Mr. Griffin is a disliked high school English teacher. Mark persuades his classmates Jeff, David, Betsy, and Sue to kidnap their teacher to scare him into giving them high grades for inferior work. The students kidnap Mr. Griffin, tie him up, blindfold him, and drive him to the secluded mountains to leave him there. Their plan soon backfires when Mr. Griffin dies of a heart attack. The teens find themselves in a chain of events that lead them from one violent act to another. They learn that they had judged Mr. Griffin at the surface level and had not thought of him as a real person with a reason for his actions: a deep concern for the students' education. Class discussion would lend itself well to the topic of peer pressure, showing the importance of making one's own choices with full consideration of others. The mystery format of the novel incorporates characterization, suspense, and foreshadowing to allow the story to unfold, even though readers might figure out some of the details ahead of time. Although written in the late 1970s, Duncan's classic will keep readers on the edge of their seats and delivers plot twist after plot twist. With multiple points of view, this suspense novel gives teens a full scope of each character's mental state and motivation. VERDICT A great YA classic to share with Karen M. McManus fans.-Heather Lassley & NCTE Database

      Copyright 2024 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.8
  • Lexile® Measure:720
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:3

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