Swindle

By Gordon Korman

Reviewed by Noah Bell

            Have you ever been swindled out of something valuable?  Well Griffin Bing has. When he and his friend Ben Slovak plan a spooky sleepover at the old Rockford house that is scheduled to be demolished, Griffin finds a baseball card but not just any old baseball card, a rare Babe Ruth baseball card.  But when Griffin Bing tries to sell the “Great Bambino” he gets swindled by a character named S. Wendell Palomino for only a fraction of the real price which is 1 million dollars. When Griffin plans a heist to get back the card three things stand in his way a vicious guard dog, security system and an impenetrable safe. If you like heist books Swindle is the book for you.