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| Original Title: | Al Capone Does My Shirts |
| ISBN: | 0142403709 (ISBN13: 9780142403709) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Tales from Alcatraz #1 |
| Characters: | Al Capone |
| Setting: | Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California,1935(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (2005), Sid Fleischman Humor Award (2005), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2006), John and Patricia Beatty Award (2005), California Young Readers Medal for Middle School/Junior High (2007) Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Nominee (2005), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2006) |
Gennifer Choldenko
Paperback | Pages: 225 pages Rating: 3.84 | 39406 Users | 3906 Reviews
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| Title | : | Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz #1) |
| Author | : | Gennifer Choldenko |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 225 pages |
| Published | : | April 20th 2006 by Puffin Books (first published January 1st 2004) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens |
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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.Rating Out Of Books Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz #1)
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I really wanted to like this one. I visited Alcatraz a few years ago and saw this book in the gift shop. I thought itd be a fun and interesting read about a family living on the island. Instead, it was pretty disappointing. Im not sure that all of the crooks were contained behind the prison walls; at least one (the wardens daughter) was living at large. A chronic liar and manipulator, she bullied most of the kids living on the island into doing what she wanted, including some things that herThis book was great, to say the least. I loved how the characters really felt like they were real. Natalie tells a joke about why does the chicken cross the road. In that joke, she says that his buttons rolled to the other side of the road. She plays with buttons and I have never really seen someone merge someone's issues or addictions into the way they talk and the things that they talk about. It is not a huge revolutionary thing in books but it does matter how you build the character and what
Read this on the plane before visiting Alcatraz, and it was the perfect introduction. I was reading more for the historical nuggets, but there was a wealth of pitch-perfect human interactions and that was the meat of this book: kids who felt real, and parents who felt real, and an adult who felt just shy of villainy in a way that of course a kid would see the guy, and a fabulous representation of autism in the 1930s. The plot felt a little undeveloped - the book ended so suddenly! - but let's
Ive been meaning to read this for a while, and Im glad I finally got the chance. It tells the story of 12-year-old Moose Flanagan, whose family moves to Alcatraz in the 1930s when his dad takes a job as a prison guard. The first-person narration is beautifully done. I loved the humor and the relationships between the characters. We assume Al Capone will have a role to play in the book, but its not clear what that role will be until the very end, when we get a Gangster ex Machina resolution. It
1.5 StarsSo disappointing!! I had wanted to read this book for a while, so I was excited when my students chose this as their next read aloud. It didn't take long, however to realize that it wasn't what any of us thought it was going to be.This story follows Moose Flanagan and it walks you through his life since moving to the famous island of Alcatraz. Moose, along with his rag-tag group of friends, and his sister Natalie - who struggles cognitively - dream about meeting and interacting with Al
Moose and his family have moved to Alcatraz so his dad can work two jobs for better pay because his parents are going to put his sister into a special boarding school. Moose is NOT happy with the move, since he has left his friends behind and isn't keen on living so close to a couple of hundred hard core convicts. Then there is Piper, the bossy daughter of the warden who is only making things worse. This is a funny, fun book with a few rather implausible things in it (not shocking), but it also
Ive been meaning to read this for a while, and Im glad I finally got the chance. It tells the story of 12-year-old Moose Flanagan, whose family moves to Alcatraz in the 1930s when his dad takes a job as a prison guard. The first-person narration is beautifully done. I loved the humor and the relationships between the characters. We assume Al Capone will have a role to play in the book, but its not clear what that role will be until the very end, when we get a Gangster ex Machina resolution. It
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