To Catch a Cheat
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–12 · 2016

To Catch a Cheat

Written by Varian Johnson

Book #2 in the The Great Greene Heist series

Framed by a fake video, a retired schemer must pull one more job to clear his friends.

256 pages· 650L· AR 4.59 · 8 AR pts
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Jackson Greene has retired from conning, until a doctored security video appears to show him and his friends flooding the school gym. The blackmailers will send it to the principal unless Jackson steals an advance copy of the school's toughest exam. To clear their names, the crew reunites for its biggest job yet, dodging cameras and nosy classmates to unmask whoever set them up.

From the publisher

When a video frames Jackson Greene and his friends for a crime they didn’t commit, Gang Greene battles the blackmailers in this sequel to the acclaimed The Great Greene Heist.Jackson Greene is riding high. He is officially retired from conning, so Principal Kelsey is (mostly) off his back. His friends have great new projects of their own. And he’s been hanging out a lot with Gaby de la Cruz, so he thinks maybe, just maybe, they’ll soon have their first kiss.Then Jackson receives a link to a faked security video that seems to show him and the rest of Gang Greene flooding the school gym. The jerks behind the video threaten to pass it to the principal – unless Jackson steals an advance copy of the school’s toughest exam. So Gang Greene reunites for their biggest job yet. To get the test adn clear their names, they’ll have to outrun the school’s security cameras, outwit a nosy member of the Honor Board, and outmaneuver the blackmailers while setting a trap for them in turn. And as they execute another exciting caper full of twists and turns, they’ll prove that sometimes it takes a thief to catch a cheat.

At a glance
Format
Hardcover
Pages
256
Reading age
8–12
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
650L
AR book level
4.59
AR points
8
AR quiz
179857
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Book details

Reading levels
F&P level
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AR interest level
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Publication
Published
January 26, 2016
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780545722391

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