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1) Swindle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palomino 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 117
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Biff, a friend of Frank and Joe, buys a rare card only to find it's a fake. Frank and Joe discover that the baseball card scam is only a small piece of a larger criminal operation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Roger's friend Kenneth uses an unusual sea vehicle of his own design to take them to an underwater cave, where a cache of old loot gathered by the mermaids turns out to contain a lot of very valuable old baseball cards.
7) Jinxed!
Author
Series
Topps league story volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Chad is thrilled to be a batboy for the Pine City Porcupines, even though the team is not doing well, his fellow batboy is less than thrilled about the job, and his favorite player seems to be jinxed.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that home run in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
Author
Series
Jigsaw Jones mystery volume 6
Publisher
Edelvives
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Eddie brought his baseball cards to school and now they seem to be missing. It's up to Jigsaw Jones and his partner Mila to solve this puzzling case.
12) Swindle
Publisher
Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on Gordon Korman's book 'Swindle,' this movie is about a boy named Griffin who finds a valuable multi-million dollar baseball card. After accidentally selling the card for a million dollar loss, he enlists the help of his best friend Ben and his colleagues to regain the baseball card.