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When unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino swindles Griffin Bing out of a valuable baseball card, the determined sixth‑grader rallies his misfit friends for a daring heist. Their mission: break into Palamino’s guarded shop to retrieve the card and secure the money needed to keep his father’s SmartPick fruit picker in business.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Gordon Korman
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