Killing Mr.Griffin

Killing Mr. Griffin
by Lois Duncan

Brian Griffin is a strict and proper high school English teacher who never accepts late homework and is extremely tough on students, and gives projects every two days. His students want revenge, so a group of them decides to kidnap him. Mark Kinney is the most often singled out by Mr. Griffin, for example, when Mark does not seem to be listening, Mr. Griffin asks an unrelated question that no one in the class knows to test Mark and see if he notices this. Mark lives with his aunt and uncle. He and his friends, David ,president of the high school's senior class, Jeff ,a basketball player, and Betsy ,the head cheerleader decide to kidnap Mr. Griffin as a prank to scare the teacher and "teach him a lesson." Susan McConnell, one of the students involved in the kidnapping plan, acting as the decoy, is a good student in Mr. Griffin's class. She walks with him to the school parking lot, where Mark, David, and Jeff kidnap Griffin. They drive him to a secret place in the mountains. 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 plagiarizing his term paper, but Mr. Griffin refuses, so Mark abandons him there, blindfolded and bound. When Susan and David return to check up on Mr. Griffin, they fine something much unexpected. Secrets are revealed and stories are unfolded and by the in of the story you find out who or what KILLED MR GRIFFITH.

-M. Jefferson