Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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Al Capone Does My Homework
by Gennifer Choldenko
Ages: 9+
Published: 2013
Publisher: Dial BFYR/Penguin
ISBN: 978-0-8037-3472-2
Keywords: Alcatraz, Cheating, Prisoners, Money laundering, Prison, Autism
In 1936 when his father is promoted to associate warden of Alcatraz, Moose and his family, including his autistic older sister, become the targets of the cons' point system--and an ambitious fellow guard.