![]() It is August of 1935, and easy-going, affable, athletic Moose and twenty-four other kids-all children of prison guards and employees-live with their families in a residential building on Alcatraz. Al Capone Shines My Shoes picks up where Al Capone Does My Shirts ends. As Moose navigates tricky relationships between friends, family, and new crushes, he also learns important lessons about self-reliance, honesty, and forgiveness. In this installment, first-person narrator Moose Flanagan, the twelve-year-old son of a prison guard on Alcatraz island, is alarmed when he learns it is his turn to do a favor for the legendary criminal Al Capone. ![]() The sequel to the Newbery-Honor winning Al Capone Does My Shirts, Gennifer Choldenko’s middle-grade historical novel Al Capone Shines My Shoes (2009), is the second book in her Tales from Alcatraz series. ![]()
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