REVIEWS (cont'd)

< back"Narrated by 12-year-old Moose Flanagan, this serious but snappy novel breathlessly swings from tense to tender, from suspenseful to sad to sweet … Choldenko's many characters are dear and distinctive … Al Capone Does My Shirts is heart-stopping … heartrending … heartwarming."

—San Francisco Chronicle

People Magazine's Spring Best Kids Books: "In this novel set in 1935, 12-year-old Moose Flanagan has just moved to Alcatraz, where his father is a guard and the titular criminal an inmate. Funny situations and plot twists abound."

—People Magazine

"Extraordinary setting: Alcatraz Island, 1935 … exuberant storytelling … what stays in the mind is the teeming mini-society of the island, where guards' families really did live and where a kid really might have encountered Al Capone, an inmate at Alcatraz from 1934 to 1939."

—Washington Post … more >