He takes the card to Palomino’s Emporium where he is told that the card is a knock off and sells it at $120.ĭays later, Griffin finds out that the card was original and “Swindle”, the collector had lied and the real value of the card was $974,000. He had heard of that baseball cards sell at large amounts of money.
At that time, Griffin’s family is experiencing some financial constrains and Griffin hopes the baseball card would help. The story takes an unexpected turn when Griffin finds a Babe Ruth baseball card. However, his classmates fail to come and only he and his friend get to camp. He comes up with a plan to invite his classmates to camp with him at the old mansion. Griffin is in the quest of protesting to stop the destruction of the mansion. In this captivating storyline, two friends, Griffin and Ben Slovak, are camping at an old abandoned mansion that was about to be knocked down. This article looks into some of Gordon Korman’s best-selling novels, Swindle and Schooled, including some of the main characters, their roles and significance of the novels. Gordon accredits his success to a combination of pure imagination and real life experiences. The chillingly realistic yet funny scenarios are a reflection of the author’s trademark humor as well as adventurous style.
Gordon’s New York Times bestselling Swindle series has been transformed in to a movie. His books have even been translated into 14 languages.
Today he is a prolific writer with about 17 million copies of his novels in print. He started his writing career at the tender age of twelve and surprisingly his seventh-grade English assignment turned out to be his first novel. His passion for writing is a rare find as evident in his unique, well articulated books that opens a kids imagination to a whole new world. Hailing from Canada, Gordon lives with his family in Great Neck, New York.
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