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Al Capone Does My Shirts

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Choldenko, Gennifer

Paperback

Series: Tales from Alcatraz, Book 1

FamilyGeneral Juvenile FictionHistory

Publisher Price: $9.99

ISBN10: 0142403709
ISBN13: 9780142403709
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: Apr 20 2006
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Awards: Land of Enchantment Book Award
The Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminals in our history. Al Capone Does My Shirts has become an instant classic for all kids to read!

Today I moved to Alcatraz, 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 are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cooks or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. And then 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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