Al Capone Does My Shirts

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  • Newbery Medal Nominee (2005)
  • Sid Fleischman Humor Award (2005)
  • Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee (2006)
  • John and Patricia Beatty Award (2005)
  • California Young Readers Medal for Middle School/Junior High (2007)
  • Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Nominee (2005)
  • Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2006)
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ISBN: 9780142403709
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date of Publication: 2021-12-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Realistic Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.85
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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.
 

  • Newbery Medal Nominee (2005)
  • Sid Fleischman Humor Award (2005)
  • Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee (2006)
  • John and Patricia Beatty Award (2005)
  • California Young Readers Medal for Middle School/Junior High (2007)
  • Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Nominee (2005)
  • Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.