Adele Griffin, Author Hyperion Books $14.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0423-8
Eighth grader Holland Shepard eloquently narrates the pains of surviving adolescence--when three of her siblings did not. She and her obsessive-compulsive younger sister Geneva live in New York City's Greenwich Village, in a house ""inlaid and...
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Adele Griffin. Algonquin, $18.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61620-676-5
Lizzy has never lived down the shame of her first epileptic seizure, which occurred during eighth-grade chorus (“I know girls still whisper about it. How crazy I looked. How freaky I seemed,” she says). Since then, she’s remained closed-lipped about
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Adele Griffin. Algonquin Young Readers, $18.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61620-675-8
It’s 1976 in Sunken Haven, a gated beach community on Fire Island. Jean, 16, is ready to dump her longtime beau, Bertie, for a summer romance with Gil, the nephew of another old Sunkie family. But Gil, who grew up in Alabama, has his eye on Fritz,...
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Adele Griffin. Soho Teen, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61695-360-7
In a faux biography of a deceased teenage rising star in the art world, Griffin (Loud Awake and Lost) builds a novel around interviews from people involved in Addison’s life before she died, excerpts from media coverage of her rapidly growing fame,...
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Adele Griffin. Knopf, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-75272-5
Piecing together a teen’s forgotten past is the object of this mesmerizing romance set in the aftermath of a horrific car accident. The heroine, Ember Leferrier, who has suffered multiple injuries as well as amnesia, comes home from the hospital to...
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Adele Griffin. Knopf, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-87082-8
Money is no object for sisters Alex and Thea Parrott after their divorced mother marries Arthur, “the McDaddy of Sugar Daddies.” However, where they end up isn’t where they want to be. The internship at a fashion magazine that Arthur finagles for...
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Adele Griffin. Knopf, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-86645-6
Griffin (The Julian Game) offers a modernized version of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw that stars Jamie, a young au pair who is fast becoming a prescription drug addict. Shortly after arriving at Little Bly Island to care for 11-year-old Isa (w
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Adele Griffin, Author Hyperion Books $4.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1300-1
A seventh-grader is torn by his conflicting feelings for his abusive father. PW's starred review of this National Book Award nominee said, ""Griffin's pointedly jarring dialogue and keen ear for adolescent jargon have a magnetic quality few readers...
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Adele Griffin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-395-81181-8
Ambitiously conceived and sharply observed, this debut novel points to a promising new talent. Making few concessions to her audience, Griffin describes a single day in the life of 12-year-old Lane Beck, daughter of a career Army officer stationed...
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Adele Griffin, Author Hyperion Books $14.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0440-5
While Griffin's (The Other Shepards) cast here is as compelling as ever, her latest novel seems much like a series of character sketches. As the book opens, Ben, the 11-year-old narrator, addresses his absent 17-year-old stepbrother, Dustin. ""You...
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Adele Griffin, Author . Hyperion $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0739-0
Less weighty than some of Griffin's previous novels (The Other Shepards; Sons of Liberty), this humorous fantasy introduces two witches who are identical twins. Ten-year-old Luna and Claire (born 13 minutes apart) may look the same on the...
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Adele Griffin, Author Hyperion Books $5.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1241-7
PW gave a starred review to this novel of a single day in the life of an anxiety-ridden girl living on an Army base near the Panama Canal, calling it ""ambitiously conceived and sharply observed."" Ages 10-14. (Apr.)
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Adele Griffin, Author . Putnam $15.99 (150p) ISBN 978-0-399-23783-6
Griffin explores some of the themes she mined so well in her The Other Shepards
. Here, however, the structure works against the development of the plot and characters. Readers know from the opening chapter that something is not right with Jane, as...
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Adele Griffin, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0618-8
Griffin (The Other Shepards) once again examines the nuances of adolescent relationships in this suspenseful novel about a magnetic, mentally unstable freshman and her hold over a new girl in town. "I met Amandine on the last day of my first...
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Adele Griffin, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0879-3
Hannah, 13, loves math. In fact, she has "a gift for numbers." But it's 1934, and "math [is] more practical for boys," at least, that's what her teacher says. In her hometown of Chadds Ford, Pa., the most she can hope for is...
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Adele Griffin, Author . Putnam $15.99 (151p) ISBN 978-0-399-23782-9
Griffin (Amandine) once again penetrates the cruelty inherent in female cliques, but the novel does not live up to its provocative premise. Using a third-person narration, the author alternates among the perspectives of four of the "Lucky Seven,&
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Adele Griffin, Author . Hyperion $5.99 (277p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1727-6
A 13-year-old math genius travels from her home on the farm to Philadelphia, trying out for a scholarship. According to PW
, "[Griffin] remains true to Hannah's personality, laying out the ways in which her eccentricities inhibit her even as
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Adele Griffin, Author . Putnam $15.99 (170p) ISBN 978-0-399-23784-3
Griffin (Sons of Liberty
) creates a lighthearted rendering of teenage ennui in this novel introducing Irene, a 14-year-old who is stuck at home in New Jersey while her best friend "spends a glorious, glamorous summer" at tennis camp in...
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Adele Griffin, Author . Putnam $14.99 (120p) ISBN 978-0-399-23785-0
Griffin’s (Witch Twins
) goes in for ghoulish humor with this tale of three siblings who are “fruit-bat vampire hybrids” living in Manhattan and posing as ordinary children. Their parents, who now earn unexpectedly good incomes by...
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Adele Griffin, Putnam, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-399-25460-4
National Book Award–finalist (Where I Want To Be) Griffin starts her perceptive novel when Raye and her best friend, Natalya, two "pretty much invisible" sophomores at their elite all-girls school, create a fictional Facebook persona, Elizabeth, who
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Adele Griffin, Author Hyperion Books $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0347-7
Capaciously evoked characters and settings are the draw in Griffin's second novel as the author exchanges the gravity of her Rainy Season for a bubblier plot. The narrator, 14-year-old Danny Finzimer (birth name Dandelion), lives with her free-spirit
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Adele Griffin, illus. by Lisa Brown, Sourcebooks Fire, $14.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4022-3712-6
In this smartly restrained ghost story, orphan Jennie has already lost her twin brother to the Civil War, but when her brooding cousin, Quinn, returns wounded to their Massachusetts home, she learns that Will—Quinn's brother and Jennie's fiancé—is...
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Adele Griffin, read by Abby Craden. Listening Library, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.75 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-8041-2367-9
Teenage Ember Leferrier remembers very little of the car accident that left her in the hospital for eight months. Now, as she returns to school, she begins to remember different things about the night and weeks leading up to the crash. However, she...
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Adele Griffin, illus. by Mike Wu. Scholastic Press, $12.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-545-73279-6
Eager for a pet, Oona Oodlethunk, the prehistoric narrator of this gleefully ana-
chronistic series opener, brings home an enormous abandoned egg and dotingly cares for it, despite not knowing what’s inside. “It’s going
to hatch into Something Cute,
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Adele Griffin and Courtney Sheinmel, illus. by Sara Palacios. Bloomsbury, $9.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-61963-137-3
Over four stories, one for each season, Griffin (the Oodlethunks series) and Sheinmel (the Stella Batts series) introduce friends Agnes, a pig, and Clarabelle, a chicken. Both pals have moments of adventurousness and trepidation at various points,...
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Adele Griffin, Author, Jacqueline Rogers, Illustrator Hyperion Books for Children $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1940-9
Now appearing in their third adventure, Witch Twins and Melody Malady by Adele Griffin, illus. by Jacqueline Rogers, identical twins Claire and Luna may look the same on the outside, but inside they are very different. Their five-star witch ...
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Adele Griffin, Author, Jacqueline Rogers, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.99 (138p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0763-5
Claire and Luna try to restore order after their grandmother's special marigold powder meant to help the miserable Luna enjoy her stay at summer camp goes missing in Witch Twins at Camp Bliss by Adele Griffin, the sequel to Witch Twins. (June)
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Adele Griffin, Author, Jacqueline Rogers, Illustrator . Hyperion $5.99 (154p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1563-0
PW
called this tale of 10-year-old identical twins who have inherited special powers from their grandmother (a witch) a "humorous fantasy." Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
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Adele Griffin, Author, Peter McCarty, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0351-4
Rock Kindle, a seventh-grade history buff, is fascinated by war but is blind to the one that is brewing under his own roof. His older brother, Cliff, is getting fed up with their militant father's belittling remarks and harsh punishments, which...
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Adele Griffin, illus. by LeUyen Pham. Algonquin, $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-61620-790-8
After her veterinarian parents decide to move from the city to live on Gran’s Blackberry Farm, Becket Branch, 9, doesn’t think she’ll miss much—except, maybe, her best friend Caleb, the apartment she’s grown up in, and the egg and cheese on a roll...
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