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Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko Penguin Putnam 2004 |
This book is about a boy named Moose who ends up on the island of Alcatraz when it was in operation. He has a sister who suffers from autism, a father who works on Alcatraz and a mom who only cares about Natalie his sister. On the island he meets a girl named Piper, who he ends up liking. She helps to get him into trouble with the warden (her dad) and Moose vows not to trust her. During this, his parents are trying to get Natalie into the Ester P. Marinoff School where they can help her with her autism. They won’t accept her, however because she is too old to go to the school. So Moose teams up with Piper and writes a letter to Al Capone asking to help his sister get into the school. Al does help and his sister gets into the school.
This is a story that will
probably interest readers from grades 6-10. The book was a very interesting book
that kept me hooked from the time that I started it until I finished it. There
are many adventures that Moose and his sister get into and that keeps the story
moving. The only bad part about the whole thing is that the narrator is speaking
as if you are in his mind and everything is going on at that time like he sighs
and sits down or Warden Willems folds his glasses and sits down. But over all it
was a very good book, one of the best I’ve read.
~Vincent Calautti, 8th grade, Boardman Center Middle School, Boardman, Ohio