Gennifer Choldenko
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Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
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Al Capone Shines My Shoes (tales from Alcatraz, #2)
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Al Capone Does My Homework (Tales from Alcatraz, #3)
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No Passengers Beyond This Point
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2010
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If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
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Chasing Secrets
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2015
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Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
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2001
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Dad and the Dinosaur
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Al Capone Throws Me a Curve (Tales from Alcatraz, #4)
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"I really enjoyed this story about a headstrong girl living in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Lizzie loves to help her father tend to his patients, and she longs to become a doctor as well, something that her Aunt Hortense just cannot abide. Girls"
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So sweet of you to ask this. I don't know the answer exactly. I think the setting had a lot to do with it. Who doesn't want to read about Alcatraz? |
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"Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! I really liked this book, and what an appropriate time to read it 😂 (as it's about the plague and we have the coronavirus). I do think the ending was a bit fast, and I would've liked to see more of Gus and Gemma in the last few b"
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"Lucy is in an orphanage in 1939 after her mom dies. She is separated from her sister before she enters the orphanage and is treated poorly. When Lucy and a few other have the opportunity to run away, they do. They join the circus hoping to earn appre"
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""In this world that can be terribly hard & unkind, there are miracles...(p. 285)"
Experience the miracle of Lucy who runs away from the orphanage and has the adventure of a lifetime as she discovers her talent of working with elephants in the circus. " Read more of this review » |
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(Full disclosure here. I am the author of Orphan Eleven so of course I love the book.) Orphan Eleven is about a girl in search of her voice, a big sister who will do anything to find her little sister, an elephant with a big personality, and a group ...more |
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“Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.”
― Al Capone Does My Shirts
― Al Capone Does My Shirts
“Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.”
― Al Capone Does My Shirts
― Al Capone Does My Shirts
“Life is amazing, isn't it? You can't ever tell what will happen. Nobody knows until they go ahead and play the game.”
― Al Capone Does My Shirts
― Al Capone Does My Shirts
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Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #4)
The Magician's Elephant
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Al Capone Shines My Shoes (Al Capone at Alcatraz, #2)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Dork Diaries Book 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life (Dork Diaries, #1)
Love, Aubrey
Lucky Breaks (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #2)
The Storm in the Barn
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