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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
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
In hopes of winning the valuable baseball card that he and his new friends have hidden in a remote cave outside Granite Falls, Washington, Andrew asks the gruff P.E. teacher at his middle school to help him become a long-jumper.
10) 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
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.
12) The trading game
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
During a summer of baseball and baseball card trading, eleven-year-old Andy makes discoveries about his father, his grandfather, who played professional baseball, and himself.
16) Cop out
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy is the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, and Paul is his 'partner-against-crime' whose preoccupation with his wife's alleged infidelity makes it hard for him to keep his eye on the ball.
20) 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.