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bak8382's review
4.0
Griff Carver is a legend among hallway patrolmen, and he's just gotten his badge at his new school when he discovers the dark underbelly of crime hidden within the highly rated middle school. He sets out on an investigation that indicates the most beloved and popular kid in school, Marcus Volger, just might be the ringleader, but can Griff come up with the evidence before Volger takes him out?
The tone is firmly tongue in cheek and hilarious throughout. The story is told from several different perspectives, and using different writing techniques including: journals, interviews, and incident reports. In the audio version each perspective is given a different narrator, which works really well.
The tone is firmly tongue in cheek and hilarious throughout. The story is told from several different perspectives, and using different writing techniques including: journals, interviews, and incident reports. In the audio version each perspective is given a different narrator, which works really well.
inmyblueperiod's review
5.0
Griff is who every kid wishes they were when they were staring at the window in math class, wishing that life was more exciting. Unlike any other children's author, Mr. Krieg understands the centrality of a young person in their own narrative.
ansate's review
5.0
You like Veronica Mars, Brick? High school noir gets you giggling? Griff Carver takes it to middle school, and it's better than ever.
petitescarlett's review
5.0
Amazing book not only the story was good the book gave me a dollar. I guess it was happy I was enjoying the story because I was about in the middle of the book then this dollar just came out. Best book ever! Totally recommend!
tashrow's review
4.0
Griff Carver is a legend in school law enforcement, but he was expelled from his old school for going too far in the name of justice. Now he’s at Rampart Middle School, a school that is perfect on the surface, but seething with crime underneath. Griff is not a rookie. He can sense littering out of the corner of his eye, nabbing the principal of the school on his first day on patrol. Griff finds himself partnered with Tommy, a Camp Scout, who is unable to see past the thin veneer of respectability at his school. Instead, Tommy accuses Griff of being the bad guy, resulting him getting him kicked off of Patrol Squad. That won’t be enough to get Griff to stop seeking out the real bad guy who is running a fake hallpass scheme.
Tongue-in-cheek and riotously funny, this book takes the crime genre and sets it in middle school. Fans of crime fiction and crime programs will love seeing some of the favorite tropes of the genre played with. The lingo Griff uses is dead on, adding to the humor of the book. The pairing of the veteran Griff with the naive Tommy is also directly out of the genre. Adding to the feel is the use of recorded statements and Patrol Squad reports to form the storyline.
The setting here is humorously drawn as well. The middle school is depicted not in lengthy descriptions but through the eyes of hall patrol. I especially enjoyed No Man’s Land, the area on the school grounds where the erasers are cleaned, forming a permanent fog of dust. What could be more perfect for the genre than a meeting in the fog?
A great summer read, this book will have middle school readers laughing out loud, engaged with both the humor and the action itself. Appropriate for ages 10-13.
Tongue-in-cheek and riotously funny, this book takes the crime genre and sets it in middle school. Fans of crime fiction and crime programs will love seeing some of the favorite tropes of the genre played with. The lingo Griff uses is dead on, adding to the humor of the book. The pairing of the veteran Griff with the naive Tommy is also directly out of the genre. Adding to the feel is the use of recorded statements and Patrol Squad reports to form the storyline.
The setting here is humorously drawn as well. The middle school is depicted not in lengthy descriptions but through the eyes of hall patrol. I especially enjoyed No Man’s Land, the area on the school grounds where the erasers are cleaned, forming a permanent fog of dust. What could be more perfect for the genre than a meeting in the fog?
A great summer read, this book will have middle school readers laughing out loud, engaged with both the humor and the action itself. Appropriate for ages 10-13.
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