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Lynne Griffin

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http://www.LynneGriffin.com

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Literature & Fiction, Parenting & Families

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LYNNE GRIFFIN is an acclaimed novelist and a nationally recognized expert on family life. She is the author of the novels, SEA ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster, 2010) and LIFE WITHOUT SUMMER (St. Martin’s Press, 2009). Her third novel THE DAY WE DROWNED will be published in spring 2012.

Lynne is also the author of the nonfiction parenting guide NEGOTIATION GENERATION: Take Back Your Parental Authority Without Punishment (Penguin, 2007).

As the parenting contributor for Boston’s Fox 25 Morning News, she appears regularly in the segment Family Works.

Lynne teaches in the graduate program of Social Work and Family Studies at Wheelock College, and at Grub Street Writers.

She has written for Parenting Magazin...more

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Playground Politics

Everyone can call up a story from childhood of being made fun of or of feeling left out. I know I can. Today, there's even less professional supervision around socializing, making the work of navigating friendships tougher for lots of children, not to mention their parents. When a friend of mine recently lamented about how hard recess is for her school-age daughter, I directed her to this Fox M...

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Books by Lynne Griffin

Average rating: 3.72 · 579 ratings · 181 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Life Without Summer 3.88 avg rating — 382 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Sea Escape: A Novel 3.35 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Negotiation Generation: Take Back Your Parental Authority, Without Punishment 3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sea Escape 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Ein Sommer Ohne Dich 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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Lynne Griffin wrote a new blog post: Playground Politics Playground Politics Everyone can call up a story from childhood of being made fun of or of feeling left out. I know I can. Today, there's even less professional supervi... read more »
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Lynne Griffin said "maybe" to attending the event: Book Club: Sarah's Key date: June 28, 2009 01:00PM location: Border's Bookstore, 255 Grossman Dr, Braintree, MA, The United States description: Join us as we discuss the novel Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. We will meet in the cafe area at the front of the store and will place a copy of the book on the table so that new people can more easily find us.
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“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

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“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. ”
― Brenda Ueland

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Aristotle

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods