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Choldenko, Gennifer.
AL CAPONE THROWS ME A CURVE
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2018.
IL 5-8
ISBN     9781101938133
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Moose, the main character and narrator, now 13, navigates a breakup with Annie, a crush on Piper (sort of), trying to get on his high school baseball team, all while being given the responsibility of taking care of her sister Natalie who is 17 now and has autism...all while living on Alcatraz Island.  (New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Award 2021)



SUBJECTS:   United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California -- Fiction.
                        Autism -- Fiction.
                        Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
                        Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

 
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