Al Capone Does My Shirts by Choldenko, Gennifer | Hardcover | Juvenile Fiction

About this book Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister Natalie can attend a special school But Natalie has autism and when she s denied admittance to the school the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose s family has used for dealing with her disorder When Moose meets Piper the cute daughter of the Warden he knows right off she s trouble But she s also strangely irresistible All Moose wants to do is protect Natalie live up to his parents expectations and stay out of trouble But on Alcatraz trouble is never very far away Set in 1935 when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with their families Choldenko s second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the good boy stance he s taken his whole life Today I moved to a twelve acre rock covered with cement topped with bird turd and surrounded by water I m not the only kid who lives here There s my sister Natalie except she doesn t count And there are twenty three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cook s or doctors or electricians for the prison like my dad does Plus there are a ton of murderers rapists hit men con men stickup men embezzlers connivers burglars kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two though I doubt it The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don t want I never knew prisons could be picky but I guess they can You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst Unless you re me I came here because my mother said I had to Book jacket Key highlights - Al Capone Does My Shirts By Choldenko Gennifer Related topics CHILDREN'S FICTION / HISTORICAL, California, Fiction-Historical, JUVENILE, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Grades 4-6 Ages 9-11, Monograph Series, any.