num_pages: 225
description: 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.
language: English
title: Al Capone Does My Shirts
titlecomplete: Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
characters: Al Capone
genres: Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Family, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Fiction
ratings_count: 43841
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: Puffin Books