- Swindlers and swindling in fiction, Fiction, Swindlers and swindling Juvenile fiction, Crime Fiction
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.
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Classical in form, spare, unpretentious and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Gordon Korman
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Scholastic Book Clubs, Scholastic, Incorporated, Scholastic
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780439903448
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- Swindlers and swindling in fiction
- Fiction
- Swindlers and swindling Juvenile fiction
- Crime Fiction
- Crime in fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Adventure and adventurers
- Adventure and adventurers in fiction
- Baseball cards Juvenile fiction
- Adventure and adventurers Fiction
- Adventure stories
- Baseball cards in fiction
Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec. In 1970, he relocated with his parents to Thornhill, Ontario. In 7th grade, he wrote a work that went on to become his first novel in a school writing assignment. It was published under the title *This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall* in 1978, when Korman was 14 years old. He wrote and published another four books while in high school. After high school, he moved to New York City where he studied film and film writing at New York University. In 1985 he received his B.A. in Dramatic and Visual Writing. He has written more than 75 books. He lives in Great Neck, New York, with his wife and three children.
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