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2) Swindle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 23
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1970, c1944
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Suspecting that their friend has been swindled, the Hardy brothers investigate and find themselves on the trail of a much larger criminal operation.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a.k.a. "Count Victor Lustig," moved to Paris hoping to be an artist. A "con" artist, that is. He used his ingenious scams on unsuspecting marks all over the world, from the Czech Republic, to Atlantic ocean liners, and across America. Tricky Vic pulled off his most daring con in 1925, when he managed to "sell" the Eiffel Tower to one of the city's most successful scrap metal dealers! Six weeks later, he tried to...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Provides details of some of the biggest swindles in history, illustrated with comic-style illustrations, including the "War of the Worlds" broadcast, the discovery of two supposedly new Shakespeare plays, and the discovery of a tribe of Stone Age cave-dwellers in the Philippines.
6) Unplugged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates, in multiple voices, the adventures of a group of youngsters at an electronics-free wellness camp where wealthy, spoiled Jett, leads other campers in trying to stop a criminal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Photographer Horace Carpetine is commissioned to do a portrait for society matron Mrs. Frederick Von Macht; however, the photos evoke both the image and the ghost of the Von Macht's dead daughter, Eleanora, who has returned to seek vengence on those who killed her.
Author
Series
Vengekeep prophecies volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A magical tapestry prophesies doom for the town of Vengekeep, and to everyone's surprise twelve-year-old Jaxter Grimjinx and his family of con artists appear to be the town's saviors"--
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