{"id":274,"date":"2008-12-01T14:33:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T18:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/review-of-swindle-by-gordon-korman\/"},"modified":"2009-01-23T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:07:02","slug":"review-of-swindle-by-gordon-korman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Review of Swindle, by Gordon Korman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Swindle<\/em><\/p>\n

by Gordon Korman<\/p>\n

Scholastic Press, New York, 2008.\u00a0 252 pages.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My homeschoolers’ book club chose to read Swindle<\/em> because they like Gordon Korman books.\u00a0 This book is fun reading with some serious underlying issues.<\/p>\n

When Griffin Bing finds an old baseball card in a house about to be torn down, he naturally brings it to the local shop for collectibles, run by S. Wendell Palomino.\u00a0 Palomino tells him it’s a fake and pays him $120, but soon after Griffin sees him on TV talking about the million dollar card he found in an estate sale — and it’s the card Griffin sold him.<\/p>\n

It’s doesn’t seem right that S. Wendell should be able to swindle a kid and get away with it.\u00a0 Meanwhile, his parents have sunk all their money in Griffin’s Dad’s invention, and they are going to have to move.\u00a0 Griffin comes up with a daring but complicated plan involving a team of friends to steal the card back.<\/p>\n

Stories of a daring heist are always fun.\u00a0 This one happens to involve a group of kids, stealing back something they believe is rightfully theirs.\u00a0 Again, Gordon Korman delivers a funny, absorbing story that will draw in both boys and girls.<\/p>\n

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www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/swindle.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swindle by Gordon Korman Scholastic Press, New York, 2008.\u00a0 252 pages.\u00a0 My homeschoolers’ book club chose to read Swindle because they like Gordon Korman books.\u00a0 This book is fun reading with some serious underlying issues. When Griffin Bing finds an old baseball card in a house about to be torn down, he naturally brings it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-contemporary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}