Killing Mr. Griffin
Book description
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…
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This 1978 suspense novel completely freaked me out when I read it for the first time in high school, because the plot was so horrifyingly believable. Four high school students in New Mexico, angry at their strict, hard-hitting, demanding English teacher, devise a plan to punish him by kidnapping him and giving him the scare of a lifetime. That’s all they meant to do. They didn’t mean to kill him. Mark, the leader of the group, convinces everyone to cover up the death. Susan is the only member not on board with Mark’s way of dealing with their crime. She’s…
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