Logan is an actor who is trying to get into a commercial when he is brought onto the card heist to distract Swindle's neighbor. Logan Kellerman: a middle school student. Pitch is an expert climber and is brought onto the card heist to bring them onto the roof of Swindle’s building. Savannah is great with animals and is brought onto the card heist to calm Swindle’s dog Luthor.Īntonia “Pitch” Benson: a middle school student. Savannah Drysdale: a middle school student. Ben becomes a lookout after revealing to Griffin that he has narcolepsy. Nicknamed “The Man with the Plan”.īen Slovak: a middle school student, Griffin’s best friend, and lookout of the card heist. Griffin Bing: a middle school student, and ringleader of the card heist. The card goes on auction, selling for 974,000 dollars, with the money eventually going to a town museum and the skate park. However, news of Swindle's swindling comes out in the newspaper, and he does not press charges-instead, he gets a dose of karma and his shop does not see many visitors anymore.

They steal the card, but leave a little evidence to their identity, and they are caught.

The team consists of Griffin, Ben, Melissa, Savannah, and Pitch, but Darren blackmails them into letting him also join the team. After discovering that it is in his house, they group up with a few other people and decide to steal the card back in an elaborate heist. The boys attempt to steal the card from a safe in Palomino's shop, but it has been moved. Wendell Palomino, or Swindle as the boys call him, stiffed them and gave Griffin only 120 dollars for the card. The card was a 1920 Babe Ruth trading card worth $974,000. However, on the night of the sleepover, only Griffin and his best friend Ben Slovak show up. Plot Ī smart, young boy named Griffin Bing decides to invite his entire class grade over for a sleepover in an old, abandoned house that is slated to be demolished after the town's plan for using as a new space in their town to make a skate park was thrown out because of their youth. The book was the first of a series, followed by Zoobreak, Framed!, Showoff, Hideout, Jackpot, Unleashed, and Jingle. It is a caper story about the retrieval of a valuable baseball card. Swindle is a 2008 children's novel by Gordon Korman.

Swindle series in order