Student Book Review:


Killing Mr. Griffin

by: Lois Duncan


Review done by:

 Bill K.
Grade 7
Van Antwerp Middle School
Niskayuna, NY

A great book that I read over the school year is Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan. This is a great thriller that Lois Duncan has produced. This is a great book because it has suspense, action, and excitement and you never know what is going to happen next. Lois Duncan is a great author, and she has written many more books.
This book is about a very strict teacher that every student hates because he grades paper very strict and does not put an A on the paper unless it is perfect. Mr. Griffin was well know around the school. Many students gave him really bad reputations.This makes the students really annoyed because they are used to easy teachers like there other teacher Mrs.Dolly. Mrs.Dolly corrects papers easy but Mr.Griffin is strict .
Mark, Susan, David and Betsy are the four friends that decide to try to kidnap Mr. Griffin because he has pushed them over the edge. A part that has suspense is when they kidnap him and you do not know where they are going to take him. A part that has excitement is when Mark tries to kill Susan because she tried to go to the police. A part that has At the end of the book Mark goes to a psychiatrist and they rated his personality. His personality was rated as psychopath\. After that she never would hang around a person like that again. Susan was scared really bad
I would recommend this book because of how good it was. I just told you what the book was about, and I hope it interests you and you appreciate how good the book is.

Student Book Review:


Killing Mr. Griffin

by: Lois Duncan


Review done by:

 Robin Friedman
Grade 6
Van Antwerp Middle School
Niskayuna, NY

Killing Mr. Griffin was a thrilling tale by Lois Duncan. It was about a girl who was asked out by this guy and she ends up helping kill a English teacher. The first thing that happens is, when she goes into her English class she is the only one who gets a good grade on her English report. She spots a cute boy and likes him. Then they decide to go out but the boy doesn't really want to go out with her. He really just wants her to help kill their English teacher. So she decides to help.

One night they take Mr. Griffin to a mountain side where no one could find him. Then they take away his heart pills when the kids in his English class think its some kind of explosion and they leave Mr. Griffin there. They didn't think they were going to kill him. They just wanted to scare him so they could get better grades. When they leave him without his special medication he knows he will die. When they come back in the morning, they hope that he is scared enough to not be so harsh any more to his English class. What do they find? You will have to read the book to find out.

Student Book Review:


Killing Mr. Griffin

by: Lois Duncan


Review done by:

 Peter Schick
Grade 6
Van Antwerp Middle School
Niskayuna, NY

A great book I read this year was Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan. This book is one of Mrs. LaRow's favorite books. The book is about a group of students who are so fed up with there English teacher Mr. Griffin that they decide there going to teach him a lesson.
The kids hide in Mr. Griffin's car and jump him. The kids drive him up to the mountains. They hide Mr. Griffin in a cave for the night. When they return find Mr. Griffin dead. The kids don't know what to do, so they decide to bury him. A few days later a couple picking at that same spot, finds a medicine container that says BRAIN GRIFFIN. They also discover a mound of fresh dirt! The police dig it up and find Mr. Griffin's body. The Police are determined to find the killers. The kids are terrified now, they want to turn them selfs in. But one of them already has....
Killing Mr. Griffin is a great book full of Action, Suspense and Danger. The book is for medium readers. But it can be read with great ease. So go find a copy of Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan for excellent reading. Go on trust me.
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