Paul Griffin, Author . Dial $16.99 (188p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3284-1
Griffin makes a striking debut with this gritty, dialogue-heavy novel about two homeless boys. Ray and José, 14 and 15, have survived foster care and juvenile detention together, and now hide out from their parole officers in a burned-out...
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Paul Griffin, Author . Dial $16.99 (147p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3346-6
This hard-hitting and lyrical novel opens with the apparent hanging of Jimmi Sixes, a disturbed 18-year-old veteran and street poet/junkie, back in the Bronx after his discharge from the army; the story then retraces the preceding month’s...
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Paul Griffin. Dial, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3448-7
In a narrative spanning 102 days, Mack and CéCe, co-workers at a restaurant and co-narrators of the story, are set up by CéCe's brother, Anthony, and slowly hit it off. CéCe is heartbroken when Anthony joins the army, leaving her alone with their...
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Paul Griffin. Dial, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3815-7
The idea of finding beauty and value where most see ugliness and ruin runs through Griffin’s novels, and he brings that theme into sharp focus in this chilling, of-the-moment mystery. After popular and gorgeous senior Nicole Castro is sprayed in the
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Paul Griffin. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-70939-2
In a terrifying survival story in which past traumas are as visceral and intense as present circumstances, five teenagers try to stay alive after becoming lost off the Atlantic coast. Raised in a blue-collar neighborhood in Queens, friends Matt and...
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Paul Griffin. Dial, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3816-4
After growing up in foster care, 12-year-old Ben Coffin is just happy to have a home and a loving mother; living in Coney Island is icing on the cake. Ben adores the beach, the boardwalk, and the local librarian, Mrs. Lorentz. When he meets her...
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Paul Griffin. Dial, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-399-53907-7
Griffin (When Friendship Followed Me Home) delivers a tender, sensitive portrayal of a boy beginning to wonder about his place in the world. Lorenzo Ventura, over six feet tall and 250 pounds at age 11, discovers a runt piglet left behind on his...
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