swindlers and swindling

In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.

A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.

A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.

The ragtag group of orphan boys known as the Baker Street Irregulars faces shady characters and seemingly real ghosts when they assist the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, in investigating the mysterious death of Greta Berlinger during a s?ance.

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 Smart Pick fruit picker.

Raised as a proper lady, Enne Salta must abandon her reputation and leave her finishing school to look for her missing mother in New Reynes--also known as the City of Sin. The only lead she has is a grifter named Levi Glaisyer who needs money to clean up an investment scam he was running. Her offer of financial help to find her mother is just what he needs. But as they search for clues, Enne becomes immersed in a foreign world of gangs, gamblers, and glamorous casinos.

While the sheriff is away, crooked, businessman Malachi Wilks and his stegosaurus workers try to build a railroad through Trihorn Valley, with only Josh and his friends standing in his way.

"Thirteen-year-old Nate gets caught up in a money-making scam based on his resemblance to a celebrity"--Provided by publisher.

Budding con artists Archie and Vivien spend a summer at a dilapidated, mismanaged Vermont camp competing to get whatever they want from their fellow campers.

A teenage girl from a family of wanderers must choose between the hustling, rambling way of life she has always known and the townie boy for whom she has fallen for.