Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz Series #1)
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.


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Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz Series #1)
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.


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Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz Series #1)

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz Series #1)

by Gennifer Choldenko
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz Series #1)

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz Series #1)

by Gennifer Choldenko

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Overview

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.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440629631
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date: 04/20/2006
Series: Tales from Alcatraz Series , #1
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 90,343
Lexile: 600L (what's this?)
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 10 - 14 Years

About the Author


Gennifer Choldenko received a B.A. from Brandeis University, graduating cum laude with honors, and a B.F.A. in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Gennifer’s first picture book is titled Moonstruck: The True Story of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon. Reviewers called Moonstruck "hilarious" (School Library Journal), "hysterical, irreverent" (National Parenting Center), and "a giggle from beginning to end" (Publishers Weekly). Gennifer was the youngest in a family of four kids, where her nickname was "Snot-Nose." Her quirky sense of humor made its debut at the dinner table when Gennifer was a very little kid. After that, anything strange and funny became known as a Gennifer Joke.

Currently, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and their two children. When she is not writing, she likes to draw animals at the zoo, especially crocodiles and turtles because they lie perfectly still. Notes From a Liar and Her Dog is her first novel for children.

Table of Contents

Part 1
1.Devil's Island3
2.Errand Boy7
3.Trick Monkey13
4.American Laugh-Nosed Beet22
5.Murderers Darn My Socks29
6.Sucker35
7.Big for Seventh Grade42
8.Prison Guy Plays Ball48
9.Nice Little Church Boy53
10.Not Ready60
11.The Best in the Country64
12.What About the Electric Chair?71
13.One-Woman Commando Unit80
14.Al Capone's Baseball87
15.Looking for Scarface90
16.Capone Washed Your Shirts98
17.Baseball on Tuesday103
18.Not on My Team106
19.Daddy's Little Miss109
20.Warning117
Part 2
21.It Never Rains on Monday125
22.Al Capone's Mama130
23.She's not Cute135
24.Like a Regular Sister140
25.My Gap143
26.Convict Baseball147
27.Idiot149
28.Tall for Her Age154
29.Convict Choir Boy159
30.Eye165
31.My Dad171
32.The Button Box174
Part 3
33.The Sun and the Moon179
34.Happy Birthday186
35.The Truth192
36.Waiting195
37.Carrie Kelly199
38.What happened?205
39.The Warden212
40.Al Capone Does My Shirts215
Author's Note217
Notes227

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"Choldenko's pacing is exquisite. . . . [A] great read."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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