Books with author Peni R. Griffin

For fifty years, ten-year-old Susie has waited for her parents and sister to come back. Each new family who moves into her home seems not to notice her, except for the young children. Susie likes children. She even likes baby-sitting, but can she baby-sit forever? Why can't she get anyone else's attention?Charlotte is looking forward to a great summer in her new home, despite her many baby-sitting duties. But someone else seems to be helping her watch her little brother. Someone only he can see. Gradually Charlotte realizes her all-too-normal house is haunted-by the ghost of a girl who doesn't or won't realize that she's dead.Set around the Fourth of July, this story offers two perspectives-one of the living and one of the dead-in a wholly entertaining and thought-provoking way.

A vivid, exhilarating peek at our prehistoric past, now available in paperbackThis action-packed, fully-imagined time travel book takes a young Texan girl, participating in an archaeological dig, back to the time of the mammoth. There Esther is adopted by a group of mammoth hunters, who teach her to forage for food, make clothes, build fires, and protect herself from the megafauna who roam the land-scimitar cats, panthers, and more. Even as she grows attached to her new family and proud of her many skills, Esther searches for a way home. Praise for 11,000 Years LostA Texas Bluebonnet Award suggested read for 2006-2007 "A vivid and engrossing picture of Pleistocene society...Griffin draws on her careful research to invent the past with a specificity beyond an archaeologist's wildest dreams."--Archaeology Magazine "Esther's adventures in the messy world of late Ice Age Texas provide a compelling and believable read. Likable characters populate a fully realized world." --Kirkus "An exciting peek into the distant past." --Booklist"A unique, superior contribution to speculative adventure fiction, Ether's survival story is an emotionally satisfying, well-crafted read."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

On her first visit to her father's new home, eight-year-old Caroline and her older stepbrother enter a magical painting left by one of her father's art students and find themselves trapped in a maze inhabited by mermaids, minotaurs, and other mythical creatures.On her first visit to her father's new home, eight-year-old Caroline and her older stepbrother enter a magical painting left by one of her father's art students and find themselves trapped in a maze inhabited by mermaids, minotaurs, and other mythical creatures

For fifty years, ten-year-old Susie has waited for her parents and sister to come back. Each new family who moves into her home seems not to notice her, except for the young children. Susie likes children. She even likes baby-sitting, but can she baby-sit forever? Why can't she get anyone else's attention?Charlotte is looking forward to a great summer in her new home, despite her many baby-sitting duties. But someone else seems to be helping her watch her little brother. Someone only he can see. Gradually Charlotte realizes her all-too-normal house is haunted-by the ghost of a girl who doesn't or won't realize that she's dead.Set around the Fourth of July, this story offers two perspectives-one of the living and one of the dead-in a wholly entertaining and thought-provoking way.

Charlotte is looking forward to spending the summer in her new home-she has her own bedroom, a nearby pool, a friendly neighbor, and there's a big block party coming up. Then her little brother suddenly starts asking for his new friend, "Susie." Is someone else playing with him? Someone only he can see? Soon Charlotte realizes that her all-too-normal house is haunted-by the ghost of a girl who doesn't realize that she's dead. . . . "Has several strong appeals: new best friends solving a mystery together, a just-scary-enough ghost girl, and a deathless bond between sisters that provides the book with its resoundingly satisfying conclusion." (The Horn Book)

For fifty years, ten year old Susie has waited for her parents and sister to come back. Each new family that moves into her home seems not to notice her, except for the young children. Susie likes children. She even likes baby-sitting, but can she baby-sit forever? And why can't she get anyone else's attention? Charlotte is looking forward to a great summer in her new home, despite many baby-sitting duties. Her own bedroom, a nearby pool, a friendly neighbor, a big Fouth of July block party coming up-everything about the new house is terrific. And strangely her little brother, who is usually such a handful, suddenly becomes easier to manage. Is someone else helping Charlotte watch Brandon? Someone only he can see? Gradually Charlotte realizes that her all-too-normal house is haunted-by the ghost of a girl who doesn't or won't realize she's dead.

In a harsh and noisy time, a young girl's key to her dreams -- music -- may be closer than she thinks.There was a new song playing in the back of Alma's head. An angry song, for Jovita and her killer, and Eddie, and everybody whose family did things that everybody had to live with. She could feel it, thumping in her brain, but couldn't hear it well enough to even hum it. Not in this house.She needed quiet, and a guitar. She needed Mrs. B's house.Alma misses many things. She misses her grandmother; her big brother Eddie back when he didn't deal drugs; the freedom she had before her baby niece Silvita was born; and now, worst of all, she misses Jovita, the singer she idolized who was recently killed in a drive-by shooting. Just when things seem hopeless, Alma discovers the cat door in her neighbor's often-empty home, and an unintended window opens into a better world, full of music.And what could be the harm in Alma's stealing (borrowing, really) a little peace and quiet, maybe even a ticket to her future?Peni R. Griffin has created a character at once bitter and optimistic. She has succeeded, even more impressively, in making the "dark" world surrounding Alma shine with small -- but life-changing -- possibility.

While on a secret mission, Agent Liam Adler struggles to gain the upper hand and ultimately embarrasses the CIA. Now he is forced to return to normal every day life as a civilian working at a grocery store. With a knowledge of government secrets and new allies in the produce and meat departments, he begins to suspect the grocery store is not all that it seems to be. The Grocery Store Spy is the first book in B. R. Griffin's Grocery Store Spy Series. This book is clean, fun, and humorous and can be enjoyed by the whole family.