Category: Newbery Honors

Al Capone Does My Shirts is a novel by Gennifer Choldenko, published in 2004. The book is a 2005 Newbery Honor Book. Set in 1935, it follows the story of a twelve-year-old boy named Moose Flanagan who moves with his family to Alcatraz Island where his father works as a prison guard. Moose has to…