Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol - Hardcover

Krieg, Jim

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9781595142764: Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595142762 ISBN 13: 9781595142764

Publisher: Razorbill, 2010

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Twelve-year-old Griff Carver knows a thing or two about fighting crime. Because Griff?s not just any kid?he?s a kid with a badge. And if you are a criminal, he?s your worst nightmare.

Griff might be the new kid on the Rampart Jr. High Patrol squad, but he?s no rookie. And he?ll do whatever it takes to clean up the mean hallways of his middle school?even if it lands him in hot water.

But when Griff links cool kid Marcus ?The Smile? Volger to a counterfeit hall pass ring, can he and his friends close the case? Or will Griff let down the force?and lose his badge?for good?

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About the Author:

Jim Krieg has been working as a writer for the film and television industry for the past decade, and has written screenplays for Warner Brothers, New Line, and 20th Century Fox. He enjoys his growing family, surfing and writing about himself in the third person. In that order. Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol is his first novel. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4–8—This is a clever take on a police procedural. Griff Carver is your typical hard-boiled cop who has seen it all during his time on the force—but the force just happens to be the middle school hallway patrol. For reasons not immediately clear to readers, he is changing schools and his mother urges him to join band instead of signing up for hall-monitor duty. He can't stay away from the force, though. The need to stick it to the rule breakers is just too great. His first day walking the beat sees him berating the school principal for dropping his straw wrapper on the floor and not picking it up. Clearly he's not out to make friends, especially when he discovers who's behind the group counterfeiting hall passes. He does manage to make reluctant allies, including the fresh-faced rookie of the force and the girl ace reporter of the school newspaper. With the exception of a scene at a video arcade where Griff snaps while under the influence of too much sugar-filled soda and has to be dragged away in a troubling parody of cop rage, Krieg keeps Griff's story light and humorous.—Kathleen Meulen Ellison, Sakai Intermediate School, Bainbridge Island, WA
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