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Al Capone Does My Homework by Gennifer Choldenko
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Al Capone at Alcatraz
Alcatraz Island in the 1930s isn't the most normal place to grow up, but it's home for Moose Flanagan, his autistic sister, Natalie, and all the families of the guards. When Moose's dad gets promoted to Associate Warden, despite being an unlikely candidate, it's a big deal. But the cons have a point sys ...Show more
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Category: Young Adult | Series: Tales from Alcatraz Ser.
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 d ...Show more
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz #1) by Gennifer Choldenko
Category: Young Adult | Series: Tales from Alcatraz
When Moose Flanagan and his family move to Alcatraz Island, home to the prison and some well-known criminals, he is not hoping for much. But, with some ingenious plans and the help of his new friends, things get quite exciting for Moose - particularly when his sister Natalie gets involved.
Al Capone Shines My Shoes (Tales from Alcatraz #2) by Gennifer Choldenko
Category: Young Adult | Series: Tales from Alcatraz
Moose's sister has got a place in the perfect school on the mainland, one that will help her deal with her autism. But there is one hitch. She got the place with the help of Al Capone and now it's payback time. Soon Moose is caught up in a terrible cycle of secrets and favours that threatens to destabil ...Show more
Dogtown by Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko
Category: Children's Fiction
A story of kindness and finding a home. Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have outgrown them. When two dogs - and a mouse - embark on an adventure to find their forever homes, there is danger, cheese sandwiches, a charging station, and some une ...Show more
No Passengers Beyond This Point by Gennifer Choldenko
Category: Children's Fiction
After losing their house to foreclosure, three siblings - India, Finn and Mouse - have less than twenty-four hours to pack their belongings and fly, without their mother, to stay with an uncle in Colorado. But when they land, a mysterious driver meets them at the airport in a pink car adorned with feath ...Show more
The Monkey's Secret by Gennifer Choldenko
Category: Children's Fiction
In a segregated town, a hidden boy, a courageous girl - and a mystery in desperate need of solving. San Francisco, 1900. Thirteen-year-old Lizzy Kennedy is not like the other girls in her town. She'd much rather be helping her doctor father with his patients than be stuck in frilly dresses and learn how ...Show more
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