Paul Griffin
1) Adrift
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"Matt and Mike are best friends, just two working-class guys trying to earn some money in Montauk for the summer. When they meet Driana, JoJo, and Stef, three friends who live a much different life of privilege, Matt and Mike find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard a small boat that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in.
A boys chance encounter with a scruffy dog leads to an unforgettable friendship in this deeply moving story about life, loss, and the meaning of familyBen Coffin has never felt like he fits in. A former foster kid, he keeps his head down at school to avoid bullies and spends his...
4) Stay with me
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Cece, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison he pushes Cece away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.
5) Skyjacked
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Five teenagers from the elite Hartwell Academy are on their way back to New York from an end-of-summer camping trip in Idaho when they realize that something has gone wrong; one of them has become violently ill, and their private plane has apparently been hijacked and is headed in the wrong direction--and even if they can somehow break into the cockpit and manage to overpower the hijacker, they have no idea how to fly the plane, much less land it....
6) Burning blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When beautiful, smart Nicole, disfigured by acid thrown in her face, and computer hacker Jay meet in the school psychologist's office, they become friends and Jay resolves to find her attacker.
7) Saving Marty
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"When Lorenzo adopts a runt piglet destined for auction, an unexpected, life-changing friendship forms"--