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Name: Al Capone Does My Shirts

Author: Gennifer Choldenko
Year: 2004
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Historical fiction, Award winners, Children

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ISBNs:
9780142403709
0142403709

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.

This book is part of the "Al Capone at Alcatraz" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Al Capone Does My Homework"
First published in 2013
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"Al Capone Shines My Shoes"
First published in 2009
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