Adele Griffin's Books
May.10.2011
When 17-year-old Jamie arrives on the idyllic New England island of Little Bly to work as a summer au pair, she is stunned to learn of the horror that precedes her. Seeking the truth surrounding a young couple's tragic deaths, Jamie discovers that she herself looks shockingly like the dead girl-and that she has a disturbing ability to sense the two ghosts. Why is Jamie's...
Sep.01.2010
New girl Raye Archer is desperate for a way into the in crowd, and so when ice-queen Ella Parker chooses her to get back at her ex, the gorgeous Julian Kilgarry, Raye is more than game. Even if it means creating a fake Facebook identity as “Elizabeth” so that she can learn enough about Julian to sabotage him. While a fun and dangerous thrill at first, Raye hadn’t counted on...
Aug.27.2010
Life isn't easy for ancient vampires trying to blend in with regular people in a new city -- and if those vampires are schoolkids? That's a whole different story.
The Livingstone kids are fruit bat hybrids who have left the Old World dangers -- and immortality -- behind for a "normal" life in New York City. But normal doesn't...
May.01.2010
Jennie Lovell's life is the very picture of love and loss. First she is orphaned and forced to live at the mercy of her stingy relatives. Then her fiance falls on the battlefield, leaving Jennie haunted by the mysterious circumstances of his death. When she forms an unlikely alliance with a spirit photographer, Jennie begins to uncover secrets of the man she thought she loved. With...
Sep.01.2009
Lexie might be the first vampire ever to run for ninth-grade class president, but she’s determined to make dreamy Dylan notice her, even if it means running against perfect, popular Mina. And things would be going pretty well, if it weren’t for those annoying pixie houseguests! Blix and Mitzi are wreaking backwards-speaking, house-pinkifying havoc, and now they want Lexie to run a...
Sep.01.2005
From the publisher:
Once, Jane was the big sister, teaching Lily to play make believe and protecting her from thunderstorms. But then Lily grew up. She started making friends and dating boys, while Jane wanted to go on playing make believe forever. For Jane, the line between fantasy and reality had always blurred, whereas Lily lived for a future bright with expectation and change...
Jun.01.2001
Publishers Weekly
Griffin (The Other Shepards) once again examines the nuances of adolescent relationships in this suspenseful novel about a magnetic, mentally unstable freshman and her hold over a new girl in town. "I met Amandine on the last day of my first week at James DeWolf High School," begins 14-year-old Delia's first-person narrative. Through Delia's...
A ghost is haunting the Scottish castle Glenn Bly, and it's up to the visiting twins to catch him. But that's not the only problem. The castle's landlords, the awful Lord and Lady Shrillingbird, want to kick out the castle tenants in order to make Glenn Bly their permanent home. And when the twins learn a bit more about handsome ghost Percival,...
When Hollywood child movie star Melody Malady arrives in Philadelphia to shoot her latest film, the twins learn that Melody is a twin, too. While Claire becomes instantly star-struck by her new glamor pal, Luna would rather be friends with genealogist genius Dolores. The question is, will the twins' own friendship survive?
It's summertime, and that means camp for the twins! While Claire loves-loves-loves all sports, Luna would rather hide out in the infirmary. Luckily, Grandy has given Luna some marigold powder so that she'll have more zest for camp. But when the powder disappears and strange things start to happen at Camp Bliss, the twins must hunt down the rebel...
Claire and Luna's father is getting remarried! The problem is that Fluffy, their step-mom-to-be, is from Texas. Does that mean their father is moving? Can the twins come up with a magic spell that will put a stop to this dreaded wedding?
Twelve-year-old Lane watches and worries over her brother, Charlie, who's always acting crazy. And lately, news of unrest in the Zone--the area around the army base in Panama where she lives--is making her more anxious than ever. But while President Carter's decision to return the Canal is upsetting everyone around her, Lane is more troubled by the secrets her...
Danny's mother has always been a little dramatic. Evidence: Danny's name is short for Dandelion. How embarrassing! Her mother never seems to leave the stage, and loves to exaggerates reality with a zillion meandering stories, has never been a problem ... until now. Danny thinks her mother is hiding the truth about Danny's father and their past. A lighthearted story about...
Nobody knows the American Revolution better than Rock Kindle. He can name every soldier, spy, and battlefield of this war. Rock's belief that he himself could brave any battle often helps him through the bad times, when Rock's own father wages small, cruel wars on the rest of the family. But when his best friend, Liza, decides to run away...
Thirteen-year old Holland Shepard and her younger sister, Geneva, are the late-in-life offspring of parents whose first three children died in a car accident. The girls never knew their older siblings, whose presence still casts a shadow over their Greenwich Village townhouse. Into this world comes Annie, a free-spirited artist who opens the...
About Adele
Adele Griffin has written a number of books for young adults, including Where I Want to Be, Amandine, The Other Shepards, the Witch Twins and Vampire Island series, Picture the Dead with bestselling illustrator Lisa Brown, and the new "Generation...
Connections
Causes Adele Griffin Supports
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Harlem Village Academies
CitySquash
Boys Latin School of Philadelphia
Adele’s Favorite Books
Watership Down, As I Lay Dying, Old Filth, Lucky JIm, Underworld, Rebecca, A Separate Peace, The Mists of Avalon, The Magus, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, The...