Swindle (#1)

by Gordan Korman

Paperback, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

FIC Korman

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.

Collection

Publication

Scholastic Book Clubs (2008), Edition: 1st, 252 pages

Awards

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)
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)
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)

Language

Physical description

252 p.; 7.5 inches

ISBN

0545107563 / 9780545107563

Barcode

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