Swindle

Blurb

Swindle is a 2008 book by Gordon Korman.
The book is about a 6th grader named Griffin Bing who has found the answer to his family's financial problems when he discovers an extremely rare Babe Ruth baseball card in an old Rockford house with his best friend Ben. However, when he tries to sell it to a local dealer named S. Wendell Palomino, he is told it is a replica and is tricked out of it. He and Ben try to go steal it back from Swindle's shop, only to find that it's gone, and they have to break into Swindle's house. Now, in order to get the card back, Griffin must gather a team of local students with unique skills to break into Palomino's heavily guarded home to retrieve the card before the big auction where Swindle plans to sell the card.