Student Book Review
"SWINDLE" by Gordon Korman
Say you find something interesting, you probably think you can return it or exchange for something else, but sometimes that is not true, sometimes you might get tricked out of a deal...
In the book “Swindle”, we meet Griffin Bing who has found the solution to his family’s financial problems when he finds an extremely precious and rare Babe Ruth baseball card in a Rockford house which is very old, with his friend Ben. When Griffin tries to sell it to this mean collector named “Swindle”, he gets tricked out of the deal that he and Swindle made. Griffin and his friends must act and get the card back to save the financial problems Griffin’s family is facing. It will take courage and lots of help to get this precious card back and sooner or later breaking into Swindle’s heavy guarded house.
What makes this story so fun is that Griffin and his friends go through so many ups and downs to get the card back which makes it very funny. The book was very enjoyable and detailed but the movie wasn’t what I would expect. The movie had the same characters and the idea of Swindle but I felt like the acting needed a little more expression to it. This book was probably the best one out of the series because in this book everyone went through many crazy things and then they get locked up, it’s a very funny and enjoyable book to read.
Savannah Dysdale is a girl who works well with animals, and is someone who reminds me of myself. I really like animals and I always have a way to keep them calm, just like Savannah can.
So overall I think that this book was very good I rated it 4/5 stars, it showed how Griffin and his friends worked together as a team but one thing in my opinion that I would like to make the book better, would be a bit more action into it.
