Swindle series books6/3/2023 Griffin believes that he can sell the card for a lot of money and end his family’s financial troubles. Griffin’s parents have been arguing about money lately because his father quit his full-time job to work on his invention, the SmartPick, a contraption designed to pick fruit from trees without bruising it. The card features Babe Ruth, and Griffin believes that it must be valuable. While Griffin is exploring the house, he finds an old baseball card in a desk drawer. Griffin wants the adults of his town to see that kids will not be put off so easily he invited all of his classmates to join his overnight protest, but only Ben showed up. However, the adults at the meeting refused to listen to him. Griffin sees his act as a form of protest at the town hall meeting to decide what would be built on the Rockford house lot, Griffin had proposed a skatepark and made a detailed presentation outlining his plan. Griffin, known to his best friend Ben Slovak as “The Man With The Plan,” convinces Ben to spend the night with him in the old Rockford house, an abandoned house that is slated to be torn down to make way for a local history museum. The story takes place in Griffin’s hometown of Cedarville, New York. The novel is written in the limited third-person past tense and follows the protagonist, 11-year-old 6th-grader Griffin, for most of the narrative.
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