Al Capone Throws Me a Curve (Tales from Alcatraz #04) by Choldenko, Gennifer
	List Price:   $17.99 Unit Price:   $14.39 You Save:   $3.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   1101938137 ISBN-13:   9781101938133 Publisher:   Random House Wendy Lamb Books Category:   Reading Series, Special Needs Pub. Date:   May 2018 Pages:   240 Format:   Hardcover Ages:   8 to 12
Subjects
-United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, -Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -History -20th century -Autism -Brothers and sisters -Baseball -Baseball stories
Description/Notes
Newbery Honoree Choldenko returns with this charming addition to her beloved series. Moose Flanagan has his hands full during the summer of 1936 watching his autistic sister, Natalie, and the warden's daughter, Piper, and trying to get on a baseball team by proving he knows Al Capone. Moose Flanagan lives on a famous island in California: Alcatraz, home to some of the most dangerous prisoners in the United States in the 1930s. It's the summer before he starts high school, and Moose is going to play a lot of baseball and win a spot on the high school team. But he still needs to watch his special older sister, Natalie--and then the warden asks Moose to look after his two-faced, danger-loving daughter, Piper. In the cell house there are rumors that the cons will a strike, and that Moose's father might step up to a new job. Moose is worried: What will this mean for their family, especially for Natalie, who's had some scary run-ins with prisoners? Then the unthinkable happens: Natalie winds up someplace she should never, ever go. And Moose has to rescue her. Don't miss the rest of the Tales from Alcatraz series! Al Capone Does My Shirts Al Capone Shines My Shoes Al Capone Does My Homework