


Swindle is a great book for teaching character traits. Suffice to say, Gordon Korman is an excellent author who really knows how to hook your young friends. That book series could be another post on its own! If you want to know more about the 39 Clues books, click on this link for all you need to know. If you don't know Gordon Korman, I promise you are probably familiar with his work as he wrote two of the ten books in the 39 Clues book series. with 11-year-olds, in a super stand-alone heist caper." It really is an Ocean's 11 for kids! It has the heist, the humor, and great characters.

Perhaps the best book description I've come across is from Amazon's site where they call the book "Ocean's 11. Griffin and his friends embark on a plan to steal his card back from Palamino. However, he is swindled out of the card by a con man named S. In this book, Griffin finds a rare collectible Babe Ruth card that will be the answer to his family's money problems. Swindle is the story of a group of eleven year olds led by Griffin Bing, the man with the plan. It was also their required summer reading novel and I knew if we didn't do it together, they just wouldn't have done it. I used it for shared reading with my summer school friends. Swindle was actually published in 2009 and has been floating around in my class library for a while.
