Al Capone Does My Shirts Paperback - 2006
by Gennifer Choldenko
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.
Summary
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.
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- Title Al Capone Does My Shirts
- Author Gennifer Choldenko
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Puffin Books, New York
- Date 2006-04-20
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780142403709 / 0142403709
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 10 to UP years
- Grade levels 5 - UP
- Reading level 600
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Mentally Challenged
- Library of Congress subjects Brothers and sisters, Family problems
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 04/17/2006, Page 192
- School Library Journal, 09/01/2007, Page 57
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