num_pages: 240
description: Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose's family has used for dealing with her disorder.When Moose meets Piper, the cute daughter of the Warden, he knows right off she's trouble. But she's also strangely irresistible. All Moose wants to do is protect Natalie, live up to his parents' expectations, and stay out of trouble. But on Alcatraz, trouble is never very far away.Set in 1935, when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with their families. Choldenko's second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the good boy stance he's taken his whole life.
language: English
title: Al Capone Does My Shirts
titlecomplete: Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz)
characters: Al Capone
genres: Fiction, Historical, Family, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Autistic Spectrum Disorder
ratings_count: 43846
places: Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California
series: Tales from Alcatraz
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Sid Fleischman Humor Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: John and Patricia Beatty Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers