Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Al Capone Shines My Shoes / Gennifer Choldenko / 272 pages

Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz Island in 1935 with 273 of the world's worst criminals and 24 civilians.  He had asked Al Capone to help his sister, Natalie, to get accepted into a special school.  Natalie was accepted and Moose lives in fear that his request will be discovered.  The convicts do the laundry and Moose's laundry was mistakenly delivered to another family.  There's a note in the pocket telling Mose that it is his turn.  He finds another note in his bed - requesting that yellow roses be delivered to Capone's wife, May.  He gets hives from his bedclothes - or nerves.  Moose and Natalie thwart an escape attempt and rescue Piper's newborn baby brother.

"Have you ever done the wrong thing for the right reasons?"

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