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Al Capone Does My Shirts

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ISBN-10: 0142403709

ISBN-13: 9780142403709

Edition: Reprint 

Authors: Gennifer Choldenko

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $8.99
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date: 4/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.75" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Gennifer Choldenko was born in Santa Monica, California. Gennifer Choldenko is a Newbery Honor-winning American writer of popular books for children and adolescents. Her first novel, Notes From a Liar and Her Dog was named "Best Book of the Year" by School Library Journal and her second, Al Capone Does My Shirts, part of Al Capone on Alcatraz series, won the 2005 Newbery Honor citation.