Theresa Mattaman comes by the apartment their first morning there and takes Moose and Natalie on a short tour of the island. It is all because of Natalie they are there in the first place, so she can attend the Esther P. However, his father does have time to take Natalie for a walk to give his mother a break. To make matters worse, Moose's father is working so much that he does not have time to toss the ball with Moose.
Moose Flanagan is unhappy with the move to Alcatraz because he misses his friends and grandmother back in Santa Monica. Al Capone Does My Shirts is a humorous novel that can also bring a tear to the reader's eye as Moose learns that family is worth fighting for. However, Moose soon learns he does not need Piper to find trouble.
Almost immediately, Moose finds himself in trouble when the daughter of the warden, Piper, draws him into a scheme to make money off of the name of the most famous prisoner at Alcatraz, Al Capone. Moose misses his friends back home and resents his mother for uprooting the family for another of her schemes to help his sister Natalie be normal. In this novel, Moose Flanagan and his family move to Alcatraz Island, where Moose's father has gotten a job as both electrician and prison guard for the federal prison situated on the island. Al Capone Does My Shirts is a novel by award-winning author Gennifer Choldenko.
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