Swindle
Found: a Baseball card worth millions. Lost: that baseball card, to a cheating, swindling antique dealer. The Plan: recruit zany, multi-talented friends (and an enemy) to retrieve the baseball card that is now locked in a safe and guarded by a snarling watch dog.
About the Author
Gordon Korman wrote his first novel at age 12 as a grade-seven writing assignment. He submitted it to Scholastic Canada where it was published soon after as This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall. Since then, he has written more than fifty books for middle grade and young adult readers, including four ALA (American Library Association) Best Books for Young Adults: Son of the Mob, A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag, Son of Interflux and Losing Joe's Place. His latest book, Swindle, will be released by Scholastic in March.
Born in Montreal, Gordon grew up in Thornhill. He is a graduate of New York University's
School of Dramatic Writing and now lives in New York with his family.
Watch Gordon Korman explain how he started writing and introduce Swindle:
Book Reviews
Suggested Activities
Watch a film of Babe Ruth playing baseball, from the 1920s:
Teacher Resources
Swindle.pdf 7 KB; A Booktalk by C. MacLennan