Swindle
Readers rate it 3.5 (21 on Hardcover)
256 pages · Released Mar 1, 2008 · Scholastic Press
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Swindle is a clever heist adventure centered on a sixth-grader and his friends planning a break-in to recover a stolen baseball card. The story emphasizes teamwork, friendship, and problem-solving, with minimal content concerns—no profanity, no sexual content, and only light physical conflict. The heist premise and occasional tense moments may engage middle-grade readers, though parents should note the protagonists do commit a crime, albeit one framed sympathetically.
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After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker. After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
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- Young Adult
- Adventure
- Fiction
- Mystery
- Juvenile Fiction
- Swindlers and swindling in fiction
- Swindlers and swindling Juvenile fiction
- Crime Fiction
- Crime in fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Adventure and adventurers
- Adventure and adventurers in fiction
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ISBN 9780439903448 · Scholastic Press