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Description
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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Collection
Publication
Scholastic Book Clubs (2008), Edition: 1st, 252 pages
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Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Honor — 2011)
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 2009)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Honor — 2010)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 2011)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist — 2012)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee — 2010)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2010)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2011)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Junior — 2011)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2010-2011)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2011)
Bluestem Award (Nominee — 2012)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2010)
Colorado Blue Spruce Award (Nominee — 2011)
Silver Birch Fiction Award (Nominee — Fiction — 2009)
West Virginia Children's Choice Book Award (Nominee — 2009-2010)
Rhode Island Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2010)
Golden Archer Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2009)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-6 — 2010)
Colorado Children's Book Award (Nominee — Book of the Year — 2010)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2012)
South Carolina Book Awards (Winner — Children's Book Award — 2010)
The Willow Awards (Finalist — 2009)
Rocky Mountain Book Award (Nominee — 2010)
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Physical description
252 p.; 7.5 inches
ISBN
0545107563 / 9780545107563
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