In the book al capone does my shirts

Piper talks Moose into being part of her money-making schemes, like having inmates on the island do laundry for the kids at school.

Moose becomes friends with the warden's daughter, Piper, who regularly gets into trouble in her attempts to earn money to get off of Alcatraz. In the 1930s, Matthew "Moose" Flanagan and his family move from Santa Monica to Alcatraz Island when his father takes a new job as an electrician and a guard in the well-known Alcatraz prison.

It has three sequels: Al Capone Shines My Shoes, Al Capone Does My Homework, and Al Capone Throws Me a Curve. The book was named a Newbery Honor selection, and in 2007 it received the California Young Reader Medal. In the book, Moose Flanagan and his family move from Santa Monica to Alcatraz Island when his father takes a new job as an electrician and a guard in the well-known Alcatraz prison. Newbery Honor selection, California Young Reader Medal in 2007Īl Capone Does My Shirts is a historical fiction novel for young adults by the author Gennifer Choldenko. Alcatraz Island, near San Francisco in 1935