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 inability to drive -- but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his ...
Capricorn Anderson had never watched a television show before. He'd never tasted a pizza. He had never even heard of a wedgie. And he had never, in his wildest dreams, thought of living anywhere but Garland Farm commune with his hippie caretaker, Rain...
When Griffin Bing's class goes to a floating zoo, they don't expect to see animals being treated so badly. They don't expect to find Cleo, Dog Whisperer Savannah's pet monkey who's been missing for weeks...
Being on a sailboat in the warm waters of the Pacific with a bunch of kids the same age could sound like a vacation dream come true. However, when this month-long trip is part of a strict program called Charting a New Course, and each participant--or inmate--is there for disciplinary problems, things don't look quite as rosy...
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Six kids. One shipwreck. One deserted island. After their ship sinks, Luke, Ian, JJ, Sharla, Will, and Lyssa must find a way to survive. They have no food and very few supplies. They think they¹re all alone‹but they¹re not...
When Marcus moves to a new town in the dead of summer, he doesn't know a soul. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with an older man. Charlie is a charismatic prankster—and the best football player Marcus has ever seen...
A sixth story starring the rollicking Bruno and Boots finds the young pranksters of Macdonald Hall stirring up more trouble than ever, and their tricks include blue dye in the swimming pool and water-filled balloons in the classroom.
who knows the book Swindle by gordon korman i'm reading that book and eqlipse by stephaine myer?
im reading swindle by gordan korman if you have read it can u give me a summrey or what it about ?? (for school i cant stand readin)
Swindle is about 2 6th grade boys who sleep over at a old haunted house and later they find a baseball card in one of the drawers they wonder if it is valuable.
So the next day in the morning they take it to a store where the owner cheats them out saying that the card is only worth 200 dollars but really its worth a million dollars. So the two boys find a group of people that can help them brake into the house. So they try to brake into the owners store and they did but find out that the card isnt in the store its in the owners house so they try to brake into his house and they do but one of the boys brakes a window and the alarm goes off.So the police try to find out who broke into the house. Later they find a latter and find out it belongs to one of the boys. So the police finally find out who broke in but they didnt go to jail because the card belongs to one of the boys's grandmas.
HAHA.
The end is kinda confusing.
But its a pretty good book.
