Al Capone Does My Shirts

This new novel by Gennifer Choldenko makes you think about how your family affects who you are. Moose is a 13-year-old with an older sister who has autism. The setting is Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco in the mid 1930s when the nation’s worst criminals were housed in a prison there. Moose’s father is a guard and an electrician at the prison so his family has moved there from what he thought was a comfortable life in Santa Monica. His parents wanted to give his sister a chance at a normal life by enrolling her in a special school for autistic children, but things don’t go as smoothly as planned. Famed gangster Al Capone is a prisoner and the warden’s daughter has dreamed up a scam and makes it difficult for Moose not to participate. How can he deal with her and taking care of his sister, too?

Published in: on January 3, 2007 at 9:35 am
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