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Al Capone Does My Shirts is a historical fiction novel for young adults by the author Gennifer Choldenko. In the book, Moose Flanagan and his family move from Santa Monica to Alcatraz Island when his father takes a new job as an electrician and a guard in the well-known Alcatraz prison.
- Gennifer Choldenko
- 2006
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It all starts when Moose moves to this little place called Alcatraz. Unlike other islands, Alcatraz is pretty much a huge prison, filled with the most dangerous men around. Moose misses his old friends and feels a little unsafe sharing this tiny home with such dangerous people.
This way, she insists to Moose, she and Moose can make a fortune selling the Alcatraz laundry service to their classmates; kids will be willing to pay them for Al Capone or Roy Gardner to wash their shirts (the convicts do all the laundry for Alcatraz’s civilian residents).
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2004. 215 p. Summary The year is 1935 and Moose Flanagan’s father is desperate for a job. Consequently, he takes a job as an electrician and guard at the high-security prison on Alcatraz Island near San Francisco. The family must live on the island and obey numerous strict ...
Moose Flanagan and his family move to Alcatraz—a tiny island off the coast of San Francisco that houses some of the country's most dangerous criminals. Moose is less than thrilled about being away from home, stuck on a cement rock where most of the population is behind bars.
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The novel is about a family who moves to Alcatraz Island, a small, unprotected island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, in 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression, because the protagonist’s father gets a job at Alcatraz prison.
