false <![CDATA[Al Capone Does My Shirts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171163482m/89716.jpg 89716 17 Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It's 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that's home to criminals like notorious escapee Roy Gardner, Machine Gun Kelly, and of course, Al Capone. Now Moose has to try to fit in at his new school, avoid getting caught up in one of the warden's daughter's countless plots, and keep an eye on his sister Natalie, who's not like other kids. 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. 2952174 book 2004 Al Capone Does My Shirts total:2959|5:801|4:1218|3:744|2:159|1:37| 2959 11464 3837 667 4 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 12:24:59 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 12:24:59 -0700 2007
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Moose's family moves to Alcatraz where his dad has taken a job as an electrician. He has a "younger" sister who has autism and the family is trying to get her into a special school.

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I think the title of this book would have drawn me in as a kid - I had a thing for reading about criminals - but I think I might have been disappointed. The book really isn't about Capone at all. He's mentioned, and the kids all want to see/meet him, but he's not a central chara...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 08:01:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 08:13:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 20 10:43:31 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 10:43:31 -0800 2008 This award winning children’s novel has an unlikely setting. One would not normally consider Alcatraz Island as a place to rear children. Moose, a twelve-year-old boy, and his family move there to allow his father to work two jobs in ord...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 20:22:04 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 22:51:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 21:20:40 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 21:21:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 20:57:02 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 20:58:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 01 07:47:38 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 08:01:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 10:35:02 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 10:35:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 23 05:05:02 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 05:05:49 -0700 2009
The premise of the book is a story of Moose and his family. His father takes a job as a guard at Alcatraz and as a result they move out to the island. Moose meets other children,...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 14:43:14 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 21:04:05 -0700 2009 At no time during the reading of this supple tome did I ever think that I really, truly had a grasp on where the story was going, or thought that the plot twists would be governed by anything other than ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 17 09:51:52 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 11:20:31 -0700 2009 Al Capone Does My Shirts
By Gennifer Choldenko

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Pre-Reading
I did not know anything about this book or the author. When I looked through the list of books and trying to decide which one to write about, I picked this one kind of because it had Al Capone in the t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 09:13:42 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 07:46:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=89716