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Hi, Ms Reeves & Class,

Thanks for posting. I’m sorry you and the kiddos were disappointed in the SWINDLE movie. When a film company buys the rights to a book, they also have permission to change what they deem necessary. Nickelodeon doesn’t do animals, so we lost Luthor right off the bat. They wanted the kids to be older so they could get around in cars — my original characters were too young to drive. Basically, they bought the rights, and along with that comes the right to make it into the movie they envision. It was older, and “hipper” and, I think, not nearly as much fun. But, in its own way, it was pretty entertaining.

There are 8 books in the SWINDLE series, and I hope you and the kiddos will want to read on. Luthor is there in all of them — that’s a promise!

                              Best regards,                                                         —–Gordon Korman—–