
Initially, the students planned to kidnap and scare their teacher as revenge. As the novel’s title suggests, these students ended up killing their Griffin (1978) centers around high school students Mark Kinney, David Ruggles, Jeff Garrett, Betsy Cline, and Susan McConnell. Griffin (1978) explored the minds of teenagers, especially those with psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies, by creating a scenario that challenged the characters’ morality and values. Griffin (1978) also won awards, such as the 1982 Massachusetts Children’s Book Award and the 1982-1983 Alabama Camellia Children’s Choice Book Award. The book’s controversial premise made it a banned piece of literature


The novel includes violence, murder, drugs, and other dark themes that were questionable in 1978. Griffin (1978) is a suspense novel about a few high school students' involvement in the death of their English teacher.
