Swindle characters by gordon korman biography
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Swindle by Gordon Korman
Spend a night in a haunted house. Sounds like a typical adventure for young people. Plan a robbery that involves getting past a menacing guard dog, utilizing a high-security tech team, and torching a safe. Sounds a little more like a typical adventure for adults. Swindle by Gordon Korman is a fast-paced read about which I have mixed feelings.
A popular pick of my reluctant boy readers is the Swindle series by Gordon Korman. When I ask them to tell me about the plot, first they tell me it’s about Griffin who discovers a valuable baseball card. Griffin asks a collector how much the card is worth and he lies about the card being worth millions. Then they tell me it’s about how Griffin decides to steal the card back. To do that, he needs a plan and a team. My students don’t remember much else about Swindle except the security dog, which incidentally is featured on the cover. Most young people love animals and so having a dog on the cover woos t
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Swindle (novel)
2008 novel by Gordon Korman
Swindle is a 2008 children's novel by Gordon Korman.[1] It is a caper story about the retrieval of a valuable baseball card. The book was the first of a series, followed by Zoobreak, Framed!, Showoff, Hideout, Jackpot, Unleashed, and Jingle.[2] The book's cover signifies the plot's main thread about baseball cards, and features the characters running around a Baseball diamond.
Plot
[edit]A smart, young boy named Griffin Bing decides to invite his entire class grade over for a sleepover in an old, abandoned house that is slated to be demolished after the town's plan for using as a new space in their town to make a skate park was thrown out because of their youth. However, on the night of the sleepover, only Griffin and his best friend Ben Slovak show up. Griffin finds a vintage baseball card. The card was a 1920 Babe Ruth trading card worth $974,000. S. Wendell Palomino, or Swindle as the boys
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Swindle
Cover artist
Jennifer Taylor
Cover designer
Elizabeth B. Parisi
Release Date
March 1, 2008
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