Ten Mile River, Paul Griffin
Ten Mile River, Paul Griffin
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Ten Mile River

Author: Paul Griffin

Narrator: Joe Rodriguez

Unabridged: 4 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/22/2019

Synopsis

Best friends Ray and Jose are not your typical teenagers. They've escaped foster care and juvenile detention centers to live on their own together in an abandoned stationhouse in New York City's Ten Mile River Park. Ray and Jose are as close as brothers. But then they meet Trini, the smart, beautiful, and confident girl from their local barber shop, and they both fall for her immediately. As tension creeps into their relationship, Ray must struggle to find an identity separate from Jose and try to envision a future for himself beyond Jose and Ten Mile River.

"Griffin has a particular gift for dialogue that not only sounds authentic but also serves to define characters whom he knows inside and out. His is clearly a talent to watch." - Booklist, review of Ten Mile River

About The Author

Paul Griffin is an award-winning author and a screen writer. He lives in New York City, where he works with youths in low-income schools and juvenile detention centers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christian on May 20, 2015

Christian Pizzarelli 3/27/15 For the third quarter, I read the book Ten Mile River by Paul Griffin. There are two major characters: José, 15 and Ray, 14 are two street smart best friends who have survived foster care and juvenile detention together, and now hide out from their parole officers in a burn......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on November 18, 2010

I didn't like The Orange Houses, but was suprised to find out that this book was actually his first, and I really liked it! Two boys are surviving under the radar after skipping out on juvie and foster care by squatting in a place by Ten Mile River with their motley crew of dogs. When Raymond, the s......more

Goodreads review by Karlan on November 17, 2008

Two teen aged boys who met in a juvenile detention center live alone in park land near the Hudson River in NYC. Jose is the handsome leader and Ray the shy,smart and strong one. Ray's loyalty to Jose leads him to make mistakes and pass up opportunities to improve his life. It is a gritty, moving st......more

Goodreads review by Angela on December 02, 2008

Gritty urban YA. An excellent first novel. I cared so much for Ray by the end; I need a sequel!!......more

Goodreads review by Richie on February 26, 2019

11 April 2008 TEN MILE RIVER by Paul Griffin, Dial, June 2008, 196p. ISBN: 978-0-8037-3284-1 "Oh, save me, save me from tomorrow I don't want to sail with this ship of fools, no, no" -- World Party "Some gangbanger leaned out of a bass-booming, cruising Mercedes, chucked a Dunkin' Donuts bag into the......more

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