02748cam a2200517 i 4500 623530930 TxAuBib 20050728120000.0 ||||||s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 20-02031766 9780399238611 0399238611 (OCoLC)50630554 DLC eng rda TXKPL TxAuBib rda Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957- Al Capone does my shirts / Gennifer Choldenko. New York : Putnam, 2004. 225 p ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Tales from Alcatraz ; 1 Newbery Honor, 2005. 600. Interest age level: 010-014. Wilson Children's Catalog. Horn Book Guide,. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, March 2004. School Library Jl. starred, March 2004. Kirkus starred, March 01, 2004. Booklist, February 01, 2004. 2005-2006 Texas Lone Star Reading List. Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose's family has used for dealing with her disorder. When Moose meets Piper, the cute daughter of the Warden, he knows right off she's trouble. But she's also strangely irresistible. All Moose wants to do is protect Natalie, live up to his parents' expectations, and stay out of trouble. But on Alcatraz, trouble is never very far away. Set in 1935, when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with their families. Choldenko's second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the "good boy" stance he's taken his whole life. 600L Lexile. Decoding demand: 91 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 79 (high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile. Accelerated Reader MG 3.5 7.0 74909. Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.5 7 74909. 20050728. United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California Fiction. Siblings Juvenile fiction. Alcatraz Island (Calif) History Fiction. Autism v Fiction Fiction. Fiction. Tales from Alcatraz ; 1. TXKPL