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Swindle

By Gordon Korman.

Scholastic Press, ©2008.
ISBN 9780439903455 (pbk), ISBN 9780439903448 (hc)

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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 is from New York, New York

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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:

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Teacher Resources

Swindle.pdf 7 KB; A Booktalk by C. MacLennan

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Comment #1 posted on March 26, 2011, 2:04 PM

hey i have read zoobreak and i think it is a really good book and i say " Since zoobreak was the best book i have ever read swindle will either be the best or the 2nd best book i have ever read" and by the way gordon korman is my favorite author!

sakshi, John Diefenbaker School

Last Edit: March 26, 2011, 4:08:49 PM by kraln

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