After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino 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.
year: 2009
call number/section: 468, 1000
subjects: adventure and adventurers, fiction, swindlers and swindling, baseball cards, crime, adventure stories