Further pupils learning with this discussion guide for Al Capone Does My Shirts – a Newbery Honor Award Book – and Al Capone Shines My Shoes. This guide includes discussion questions, research topics, activities, and bookmarks to help you structure reading instruction. These children's books by Gennifer Choldenko are set on Alcatraz in 1935.

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