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    <body><![CDATA[I was thinking about reading this book with my classes during the upcoming six weeks. After reading it, I'm surprised that my school purchased a class set of it. Perhaps, eighth graders could handle it -- but, I know my little sixth graders could not. Multiple instances of cursing, the use of illici...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16204817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book I read was a little easier and the reason I chose it was because intricate plots and twisting action throughout most books can lose me and have me just staring at the page.  This book had great character descriptions and during the story their descriptions suited them well as they story pro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77370549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the book Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan, the book was about a small group of high schoolers that have an English teacher that is tougher then trigonometry. The teacher Mr. Griffin pushes the teens to the edge until they can’t take it anymore. I believe that Duncan writes this story to e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47242584">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story is about five high school students who plan to scare their English teacher by kidnapping him, to get even for his strict grading. It all goes wrong when the teacher dies of heart failure while they have him tied up. The plot was very well crafted, especially the details of how their cover-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53692784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great little suspense book for the reluctant reader.  It is only 222 pages and really is a page turner.  Students have a nasty teacher (well they think he is) and one day after they all get bad grades, someone makes the chance remark, &quot;That Griffin guy is the kind you'd like to kill.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43818904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I found this old thing sitting quietly on the top shelf of the Young Adult section in Borders, next to a couple more Lois Duncan books, I was hesitant. It seemed like one of those generic little suspense books for teens--like one of those wannabe <em>Twilight</em> fantasy books that have overly cheesy p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74136402">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like reading Lois Duncan books so i decided to try this one out and it turned to be really interesting like the books written by lois duncan. But it is kind of stupid. A bunch of teenage kids were jsut sicka nd tried of their strict english teacher so they decide to kidnap him. But they really jsu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59203464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about high school students that suddenly get the idea to play a prank on their english teacher, but the prank goes very wrong and something they didnt expect happens, they kill their teacher. I thought this book was very intersting, it had some suspenseful moments. I wasnt expecting muc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46241735">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book may be on a few lists as a classic YA lit novel, but i was not very impressed. As a product of movies like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and the like, I did not find this book very engaging. It was fairly easy to predict the plot and the characters were you're stereotypical coll...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77847208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not only is there an initial question of what exactly happens to Mr. Griffin and why, but there are several other twists throughout this book. I think most of the appeal is the different group of teens that tries to get away with this murder. While reading, I kept thinking back to my classmates and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45507168">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[12/11/08<br/><br/>My original review <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://zenleaf.blogspot.com/2008/12/killing-mr-griffin-by-lois-duncan.html">here</a>.<br/><br/>I first read this book fifteen or more years ago. I was on a real Lois Duncan streak then. I loved her works, especially Down a Dark Hall, which had a profound effect on me - I reread it last year and it still creeped me out. Having said that, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40615191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm sure this book must have been quite the blood-chiller in its day, and if I'd read it as a teenager it probably would have occupied my darker daydreams for a while. But reading it as an adult, in 2008, I found it silly and nearly impossible to believe. <br/><br/>First of all, if the medicine is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33387361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Griffin, the English teacher at Del Norte High School, isn't the most liked teacher. That is what led 5 students, Mark, Jeff, Betsy, David, and Susan to commit a crime; murder. They only meant to scare him...<br/>Though they plan every detail out, they don't realize that at some point the truth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55879273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I waited FIFTEEN YEARS to find out what happened at the end of this book.  Thanks a lot, Mr. Nims.  <br/><br/>This was one of those group-bonding books that my teacher picked out to read to us during &quot;down&quot; time in class.  But of COURSE there was never enough of that.  So this one got sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47200673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I must say this was not the greatest book I've ever read. A couple people in my class were reading it and when I saw them with the book, I thought I would read it too.<br/><br/>This book is about some teenagers wanting to play a prank on their English teacher but they accidentally kill him. Based ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14835872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had heard this book mentioned many times throughout my childhood, so I finally read it. I finished it within a day or two, but I can't remember much from the book. I just couldn't really connect to any of the characters, even the twisted one who was the mastermind behind all of this chaos. It was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69615153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A group of teenage students at Del Norte High School plan to kidnap their strict English teacher, Mr. Griffin. Mark Kinney is the most often singled out by Mr. Griffin. Mark wants Mr. Griffin to beg them for his freedom, as Mark had to beg to be able to retake Mr. Griffin's class when he was caught ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35709013">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book 20 years ago. I remember it being a very suspenseful novel. It's about a group of students who want revenge on a teacher for his strict grading. They kidnap him in hopes of just scaring him, but things go sour on them. I still remember it as being one of my favorite books as a teena...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57361357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so good because it has a problem that I have never read and i actully like this book. This book is about how a grup of kids kill there teacher by mistake they just wanted to make a joke it turns out that they kill there teachere so they are hopping for them not to get cought.]]></body>
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