Lois Duncan has written a close-up look at what it is like to experience peer pressure and why you need to say “no”, and that any “friends” who pressure you to do something wrong are not your friends. Griffin, or at least some of them, are good role models, and the ones who did are negative role models but are good because they face consequences for their behavior. The characters who don’t participate in the plot against Mr. Griffin is sort of like a textbook, except it’s fiction (the public libraries categorize it under YA Mystery but it’s not at all a mystery, trust me) about peer pressure and the consequences. I think her books are appropriate for preteens and up, depending on the maturity or sensitivity of the kid. My very first one was They Never Came Home, and Killing Mr. If you have not read Lois Duncan, this is a good one to start with. But, as we all know, even the best laid plans go wrong. Griffin is about this group of teenage high school students, boys and girls, who have a high school English teacher they don’t like, and decide to give him a good scare so he might not be so strict towards them anymore. This book was one of my first Lois Duncan novels (I have read many more since than) and it left a very good impression on me.
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