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The plan was only to scare their English teacher... They never actually intended to *kill* Mr. Griffin. But sometimes plans go wrong.
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Classical in form, spare, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Lois Duncan
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 243
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Dell, Little, Brown
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780807218549
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First sentence
“It was a wild, windy, southwestern spring when the idea of killing Mr. Griffin occurred to them.”
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