Inside this book companion product you will find four quick comprehension quizzes to check for student understanding of the book. Read swindle by gordon korman available from rakuten kobo. Swindle is about two kids, griffin and ben, who find a rare babe ruth 1920 baseball card, which is the first year for the yankees. The book makes a very strong case for the relevance of a deeper knowledge in the field of kids manipulation.
Swindle is a 2008 childrens novel by gordon korman. After a mean collector named swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card. Swindle series 8 primary works 8 total works a dream team of kids performs blockbustermoviestyle operations from stealing back a milliondollar baseball card, to breaking mistreated animals out of a cheesy zoo, to hiding a lovable but unstable and occasionally vicious doberman from his unscrupulous former owner. All the stress about homework is suddenly gone and replaced with relief. Cobb has all the gifts of a storyteller, a journalist, an ethicist, and an anthropologist.
Now, to spring luthor, griffin and his friends must pull off a scheme involving a large international dog show, lots of red dye, and. The book of swindles pian jing, also known by its longer title, a new book for foiling swindlers, based on worldly experience jianghu lilan dupian xinshu, is said to be the first chinese story collection about fraud. All of the characters had different personalities which made them all unique. Wendell palomino, he is told it is a fake and is swindled out of his money. Griffin is cheated out of a milliondollar baseball card by a sleazy collector.
One false note, the juvie three, son of the mob, born to rock, and schooled. Swindle briefly believed he had won the freedom he had tried to buy, but starscream activated a retrieval device, yanking him back into custody. Bascombe directs sherilyn fenn, tom sizemore, and dave foley in the crime thriller swindle. 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 swindles compound and recapture the card. It was published by scholastic press and has a total of 240 pages in the book. I love getting in my bed knowing im going to be swept up in a adventure with every chapter. The book is called swindle and it is by gordan korman. An undercover police officer falls hard for a seductive criminal and soon finds himself helping her.
The substance of the book is modern tragedy, but the sense of the book is the joy of heartfelt inquiry and. To deepen their comprehension of the plot, teach students to identify the sequence of plot events and analyze the relationship between those events. Swindle by gordon korman is an adventurous story with a group of kids with characters you want to be your friend too. Free download or read online swindle pdf epub book. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 256 pages and is available in hardcover format. Swindle is a middlegrade novel published in 2008 by canadian american author gordon korman. This book is all kinds of humour and actionadventure rolled up in one. See the complete swindle series book list in order. The swindle series for kids by gordon korman is comprised of three books. Aug 24, 20 based on gordon kormans book swindle, this movie is about a boy named griffin who finds a valuable multimillion dollar baseball card. Food fights, a blind nun, angry russians, and even a call me maybe breakout musical segment are just some of the notable features sure to delight kids, and all thats before the teens ingenious scheme exacts due revenge on a slimy con man you just.
His family is going through rough times and are about to go bankrupt. The swindle series tells the adventures of sixth grade kid griffin bing. Little goes according to plan, but everything turns out all right in this improbable but fun romp by the prolific and always entertaining korman. The skate park that griffen had proposed at the beginning of the book was built. Robberies, baseball cards, and action, all in the book swindle. Swindle is based on a popular childrens book by gordon korman. Griffin and his friend ben decide to get the card back at all costs because they need the money so griffin wont have to move.
Based on a popular book by gordon korman, swindle is like oceans eleven for a younger crowd. This fast paced suspenseful adventure will leave you asking for more of action packed thrillers. I wanted to read unleashed because im reading the swindle series. The stakes are high, enemies relentless and the group has to be extremely intelligent to outwit swindle and take the card back. Swindle by gordon korman paperback book the parent store. Swindle is a plotdriven book with the action occurring in a fastpaced sequence. Articles to be expanded from may 2016 all articles to be expanded. The swindle book series by gordon korman includes books swindle, zoobreak, framed, and several more. A dream team of kids performs blockbustermoviestyle operations from stealing back a milliondollar baseball card, to breaking mistreated animals out of a cheesy zoo, to hiding a lovable but unstable and occasionally vicious doberman from his unscrupulous former owner. Swindle later escaped the decepticons again, when he and all other earthbound minicons were summoned to a starship which took them to the moon. Swindle had many plot twist and i got addicted to the book since i needed to know what happend next. In the first book griffin finds a babe ruth baseball card, however s. The first edition of the novel was published in march 1st 2008, and was written by gordon korman.
The substance of the book is modern tragedy, but the sense of the book is the joy of heartfelt inquiry and analysis. Swindle ebook by gordon korman 9780545457385 rakuten kobo. Griffin and his friend plan a sppoky sleepover in a haunted house. The book is about a 6th grader named griffin bing who has discovered an extremely rare babe ruth baseball card in an old house. All of the character pictures came from imdb, because there was a movie made of this book, but, unfortunately, logan was left out of the movie. 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. See the complete swindle series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. The book was the first of a series, followed by zoobreak, framed. Wendell palomino, also known as swindle, tricks him out of the card. It is a caper story about the retrieval of a valuable baseball card. This book is destined to become a favorite readaloud for librarians and classroom teachers. Showoff, the fourth book in bestselling author gordon kormans swindle series, finds griffin hatching a new plan after his friends pet doberman, luthor, is blamed for ruining a dog show and lands in the pound. Protagonists ben and griffen are the protagonists in this story because they are just two kids who want.
Unfortunately, the man doesnt have a plan and everything his team tries to find out who really took the ring backfires. The swindle is a steampunk cybercrime caper about breaking into buildings, hacking their systems, stealing all their cash, and quickly running away again before the police show up. Swindle, zoobreak, framed, showoff, hideout, jackpot, unleashed, and jingle. This book is about three friends named griffin, darren and ben trying to get the card back from a person named wendell. There are about seven or eight main characters in the book swindle, but i have selected griffin, ben, and darren to describe to you. The main characters of this adventure, realistic fiction story are. Gordon korman has written more than fifty middlegrade and teen novels. In the story, 6thgrader griffin bing enlists a group of his classmates to retrieve a rare babe ruth baseball card from an unscrupulous collector known as swindle, who has conned griffin out of the card.
The story revolves around all of their problems with swindle and people like darren. We came downstairs again into that inner room which pretended to be a scientific laboratory. The title of this book is framed swindle and it was written by gordon korman. Darren is the one who does all the heavy lifting and later serves to be a vital part of the team. Computerexpert melissa hacks palominos email and the house alarm. This resource offers discussion questions about this book. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Based on gordon kormans book swindle, this movie is about a boy named griffin who finds a valuable multimillion dollar baseball card. Griffin is in the 6th grade, he is tiny and scrawny, has blonde hair and blue eyes.
Oct 05, 2011 this is a book trailer about swindle by gordan korman. 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. Griffin and his friend ben decide to get the card back at all costs because they. Production will commence this fall in vancouver, canada. His other books include this cant be happening at macdonald hall. The house is like a fortress with burglar alarms on all the windows and doors. And the only way to get it back is to steal it back. Hideout is the fifth book in the series by gordon korman and so to really appreciate the story you should start at the beginning of the series swindle is book. Swindle is a coming of age novel by gordon korman about a group of friends working together to retrieve a rare baseball card.
643 996 1253 358 399 1239 1079 604 497 1230 1334 362 1142 1218 259 685 1190 978 510 629 827 456 1451 198 212 437 367 494 1168 1281 660 193 406 512 712