Swindle By Gordon Korman

1. Swindle By Gordon Korman 32 Chapters 252 Pages

2. The Author wrote this book to show stealing is wrong. Something may be yours in the first place, but once it is sold or given away, it is not yours any more. The book started as a plan to sleep in a house that was about to be torn down. After finding a rare Babe Ruth card in the house, Griffin Bing decides to sell the card to a crafty collector who buys it for $120. The Kids, Griffin and Ben, decide to steal the card back, but the card, and the safe, is missing. Griffin sees that the guard dog is also missing. He plans a heist at Swindle’s house. He gets the card, but is caught. Swindle nor Griffin got the card. It instead went to Mrs. Winnifred Rockford-Bates. She gave the card to her nephew, Darren, who was in on the heist. He sold the card, but his mother made him give most of the money to the Cedarville Museum.

3. Griffin Bing: The main man of the heist. He found the card. • Ben Slovak: Went through on the heist. He had Narcolepsy • Swindle: The man who got the card for a steal. He later never actually got to sell the card. • Luthor: The guard dog. Calmed with the skills of Griffin’s dog whispering friend.

4. The story is told at a Narrator’s point of view. The narrator is not a character in the story. This makes reading easier because a character narrator is not a good idea to do. Instead of, “I cleared my throat.” it says, “Griffin cleared his throat.” which is easier to understand because he talks right after this phrase.

5. This story takes place in Cedarville, New Jersey in the present time.

6. Swindle sold the card for a fraction of what it was worth. • Griffin stole it back. • The card was not in the store. • Griffin planned a heist at Swindle’s house. • The card got stuck in a tree. • Griffin used his father’s SmartPick fruit picking machine to get it. • Griffin got caught. • The card was given to the last Rockford living.

7. My favorite scene was when Griffin used his SmartPick to get the card when Darren tried to get it also. This is my favorite because in my head it looked funny. I imagined a kid at the tip of a tall tree and a mechanical arm grabbing the card while the kid crashes through a window.

8. I would recommend this book to a patient reader. I say this because this book is so suspenseful for anyone. A reader would enjoy this because it is a continuous adventure. It is a very good book.

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