From the Bookshelf of Mineola Library's 2012 FALL Reading Challenge…
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When Moose Flanagan and his family move to Alcatraz Island, he only wants to go back to his old life. His father takes a job there as a prison guard and his mother teaches piano. They are trying to get help for Natalie, Moose's older sister who has autism. In those days (1930s) they didn't really know what autism was, but there were special schools where children could get help. Moose soon learns how much of a celebrity the famed inmate Al Capone is, when the warden’s daughter Piper concocts a s
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