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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2010
Gr 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 forcebut 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,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2010
Griffin Carver, new boy at Rampart Middle School, joins the hallway patrol and exposes a fake-hall-pass production ring. On this slender premise Krieg creates a hilarious parody of the hard-boiled detective genre, constructed around the trio of Griff, the cool, stylish (and secretly vulnerable) hero; Tommy, his bumbling, straight-arrow sidekick; and Verity,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
Griffin Carver, new boy at Rampart Middle School, joins the hallway patrol and exposes a fake-hall-pass production ring. Krieg creat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More