Al Capone Does My Shirts - Couverture rigide

Choldenko, Gennifer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0786280433 ISBN 13 : 9780786280438

Editeur : Thorndike Pr, 2005

Synopsis

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A Newbery Honor Book

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.

"Choldenko's pacing is exquisite. . . . [A] great read."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Biographie de l'auteur

Gennifer Choldenko is the New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor Award-winning author of ten children's books, including Notes From a Liar and Her Dog, If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period, No Passengers Beyond this Point, Al Capone Does My Shirts, Al Capone Shines My Shoes, and Al Capone Does My Homework. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thorndike Pr
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786280433
• ISBN 13: 9780786280438
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 317
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible