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    Swindle
    Swindle
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    Swindle

    Written by Gordon Korman

    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross

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    About this audiobook

    Popular author Gordon Korman has sold millions of copies of his irreverant books for young readers. In this fast-paced caper, 11-year-old Griffin Bing finds something far more profitable than cobwebs during a haunted house sleepover-a rare Babe Ruth baseball card. But when a swindler scams the card from Griffin for only $125, the resourceful sixth grader and his friends plot their revenge. "If you read it aloud, don't be surprised when your listeners beg you for 'just one more chapter.'"-School Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 19, 2008
    ISBN9781436147699
    Swindle
    Author

    Gordon Korman

    Gordon Korman published his first book at age fourteen and since then has written more than one hundred middle grade and teen novels. Favorites include the New York Times bestselling Ungifted, Supergifted, The Superteacher Project, The Unteachables, Pop, Notorious, Unplugged, Operation Do-Over, Slugfest, and the Masterminds series. Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York. You can visit him online at gordonkorman.com.

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    • 5/5
      Just as good as I remembered it as a kid.
    • 5/5
      The details and everything I liked it so much it was the best book in the world I mean second best book
    • 4/5
      When the friends are swindled out of a valuable baseball card by S. Windle, they put together a crew of friends to get it back. Media: photos and CG
    • 3/5
      Rather common trope as the lynchpin on the story: an adult screws over kids because kids are idiots who are easy to use, kids prove to be clever and get their revenge. Meh. Boring. The characters were all pretty one-dimensional, never growing beyond their own notable trait. Not sure if I'll continue the series or not.
    • 5/5
      This book by gordon korman was ok. At the begening, the main character gordon finds a old baseball card in a house that was about to be torn down. After they get out, they try to sell it do a card dealer. When they got home, they realized that the dealer had ripped them off, and the card was worth millions of dollors. So he assembles a team of kids from his school to help get it back. Overall it is a ok book. i probably wouldent read it again, but it was still good.
    • 5/5
      Fun! I can see a struggling tween reader still interested in these.
    • 3/5
      MSBA nominee 2009-2010

      I think this book will be popular with kids who already enjoy Korman's work and for kids who enjoy heist type stories. I feel like it skews a little bit more towards a boy book, but I certainly enjoyed reading it and found it easier to get into than The Great Wide Sea.

      My only complaint would be that it switches point of view among characters fairly often, and at times I found it particularly difficult to remember whether Griffin or Ben was speaking. I'd be interested to know if others had this difficulty.
    • 2/5
      I'm not a hudge fan of Gordon Korman so that's why I gave this book 2 stars. It wasen't just because I don't like him though, I thought the book was boring. Of course, my teacher read me this book when I was in grade 4 so I don't remember much about it now and I don't know if I like it right now but I remember it was boring to me.  
    • 4/5
      Griffin is cheated out of the earnings for a rare baseball card by a local collector and decides to take back what he feels is rightfully his. I was a little concerned about how the end would play out and the message it would send, but the author did a great job putting together the conclusion.
    • 3/5
      This book was about two guys who had a 1,000,000 doller baseball card and they were tricked by a guy named mr.palimino.And he owend a sports store and he is the won who tricked the kids into giving him the base ball card and so the did and now mr.palimino has it in his sports store and then later on in the book the kids find out that the card is worth 1,000,000 dollers and so they go to mr.palimino to see if he will give the card back to him and he said he would not because of how muth the card was worth and so the kids were upset but still try to get the card back will they get the card back?And what is there plan to get it back?I will let you read the book yourself to find out if they get the card back or not.
    • 3/5
      I did not really like this book because it wasn't very interesting.But it starts out these kids find a Babe Ruth baseball card.And this store owner buys it from them really really really cheap. And the kids find out that the card is worth way way way more.So then....to findout what happens next read SWINDLE.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      Great read i loved how a few kids can do so much.
    • 5/5
      Griffin Bing is the Man With the Plan. Ben Slovak is his faithful partner. Together, there isn't anything the boys can't do, except get a baseball card back after they are swindled by a dishonest antiques dealer. After their initial heist in the antiques store fails, the boys have to enlist the help of their classmates, utilizing their unique talents, to pull off the ultimate heist. Will they succeed past alarm systems, vicious guard dogs, and a safe?This is an action-packed story full of humor and great moments. Greatly enjoyed by the kids in my book group.
    • 5/5
       Griffin Bing and his best friend Ben have a sleep over at a spooky and lonely house, Griffin finds a baseball card. The next day, he goes to a shop where the owner tells him that the baseball card is not original, and that it is cheap, Griffin traits it with the owner, S. Wendell Palomino. Then, he finds out that Palomino has ripped him off. The baseball card is worth millions of dollars. Then the Man With The Plan (Griffin) puts together a team, and tries to break in the house, that has guard dogs, alarm systems, and a safe.
    • 3/5
      In this book 2 boys receive a letter about meeting someone in a left house. When they go they bring their stuff to camp. The mysterious person is late....Is this a trap or is this a real meeting?
    • 5/5
      This is a Great Book by Gordon Korman. It is a decent read for kids in the 4th-8th Grade. If you like action and suspense books this is a book for you.
    • 4/5
      swindle is a good book full action and spies. i feel more for little kids
    • 5/5
      Haley Crispell,This is fiction book with a bit of mystery in it. This book starts out with these to best friends Griffin and his friend Ben take a night in the old Rockford house that will be destroyed the next morning , while Ben sleeps Griffin takes a trip around the Rockford house to fing the most prized tocken to money a old baseball card. The boys try to sell the card to S. Wendell Palamino to S. Wendell Griffin is just a kid so S. Wendell cons Griffin out of his card and only gives him a couple hundred dollars, when the next days come Griffin sees S. Wendell Palamino on the T.V planing an auction on the so called useless card , but selling it for millions of dollars. Griffin , the man with the plan takes his best friend Ben and acouple of their peers to plan a heist to get back what is rightfully Griffins. I give this book the full nine yards , five stars is the perfect fit for this book. This book is five points or around that range but I am most certain Swindle is five points.
    • 5/5
      This book is about "The Man with the Plan", Griffin Bing. He is the main character of this book. The author is named Gordon Korman. The book is called Swindle. The book is about Griffin, who finds a Babe Ruth baseball card and he sells it to a collector who rips him off. Swindle made me feel that every time I finished a chapter, I felt very anxious to read the next. The life lesson I learned was to never do something you're unsure about. I thought this was the life lesson because when Griffin sold the card to the collector, it made a huge problem. I really liked the author's writing style because he gave so much detail which made me understand the book really well. Overall, the author's writing style was great. The characters are Griffin, Ben, S. Wendell Palomino, Darren, Logan, Melissa, Antonia, and Savannah. The author made the characters feel so real to me because I really understood their different personalities. I liked all of the characters, however, my favourite one was Griffin. I like the way he takes risks like they're nothing. It just makes the book much more intense. The main setting might be S. Wendell Palomino's house/store. The author made me picture the house/store really well. I love how the author gave so much detail so the reader could picture everything in his/her head. The plot is that Griffin sold a very valuable baseball card to Mr. Palomino who ripped off Griffin because he only gave him $120, in fact it was worth almost $1 000 000. Now Griffin has to get the card back because he was furious and his family was having money problems. i recommend this book to anyone who wants to read it. It was very fun and entertaining to read. :)
    • 5/5
      This book is awesome, it is about a kid who gets rip off by a collector. He sells the collector a card. I'll just leave it at that. This book is on my favorite list, Gordon Korman is the best author ever, I can't wait to get his 2nd and 3rd books.
    • 4/5
      Very fun, well-plotted middle grade novel about group of misfit kids trying to right a wrong perpetrated by a swindling collectibles dealer. I see why this is so popular with the boys at my school.
    • 4/5
      This is a good book, and Whoever has not Read this you Need to read this. If
    • 4/5
      S. Wendell Palimino has cheated the boys. They found a baseball card in a condemned house where they spent the night and when they took it to the shop S. Wendell told them it was only worth about $100. Griffin haggles to get the price to $120 and goes home satisfied until he sees on the news that night that the card is worth up to $1,000,000. Griffin decides to swindle S Wendell and get the card back, but first Trojan horse attempt failed as the card had been moved from the shop. In order to try again at the house, help from other sixth graders is needed. The kids are successful in breaking into the house and swiping back the card, but are later caught by the authorities. For those who haven’t yet read it, there is a surprise ending… I’m sure it’s a book my students would enjoy reading, and there are no language problems, and it was good that they found strengths in the classmates, but I don’t like them thinking stealing is ok. Griffin thought since he was just repossessing it like they do with cars, it was fine. At least the parents all agreed the kids had been wrong.
    • 2/5
      I never actually finished this book, getting to about chapter 10 and abandoning it. Although some students seemed to enjoy it, I wasn't taken with it. Mostly it seemed like long descriptions of how two boys were going to have to go about getting a valuable baseball card back from a man who swindled them. Their methods involved breaking in to his store, lying to a woman and so on. I have really liked other books by Korman, but didn't get into this one. 6th and 7th grade, probably
    • 5/5
      After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way -- a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, and their general inability to drive -- but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his . . . even if hijinks ensue. This is Gordon Korman at his crowd-pleasing best, perfect for readers who like to hoot, howl, and heist.
    • 5/5
      This is a really awesome book about a boy named Griffin who finds a million dollar Babe Ruth baseball card in a condemned building. When he takes it to a mean collector, whose name happens to be Swindle, to find out how much it's worth to sell it, the collector rips him off and buys it for a hundred dollars. This book is really fun to read because it is exciting.One way it is exciting is that Griffin and his friends have to steal the baseball card back from a house with a really high-tech security system. Another is that guarding the card are two really big attack guard dogs. Griffin comes up with a plan, and bribes his friends to help him with the money they'll get from the baseball card.Not all goes as planned or expected, and that's what helps make this story interesting and exciting.The author writes very humorously, and made me laugh a lot.I highly, supremely recommend this book to everyone. Kids and adults will love this adventure filled book, or my name isn't Chewbaka!
    • 5/5
      Loved this one! I know there will be rumbling over students participating in criminal acts - but what a wonderful opening for discussions on ethics. ; )I loved the Oceans Eleven feel of pulling all of the students together for their different talents and the problem solving was funny and kept the reader on their toes. S. Wendell, AKA "Swindle" was definitely an amusing antagonist that everyone can agree to hate and cheer at his downfall. Wonderfully fun reading!
    • 5/5
      While sleeping over in a house destined to be demolished the next morning, with only his best friend Ben (no one else showed up) Griffin finds a Babe Ruth baseball card. Thinking it might be of value, he takes it to an antiquities dealer, who tells him it isn't real, and hence isn't worth much. They settle on $120. Later, Griffin sees S. Wendall Palomino on a TV show, talking about the baseball card he recently acquired which he things is worth up to one million dollars! Griffin is justifiably outraged so he plots revenge on the con man. The resulting plan for getting the card back is quite ingenious, and takes the efforts of several of Alex's friends. The card does not end up where they thought it would be hidden, but thanks to an invention by Griffin's dad; it all worked out. This book is an easy, fast read; perfect for a strong grade 4, a weak grade five, or a reluctant grade seven reader. It was pretty funny and I enjoyed it a lot - will recommend it to others for sure.