On The Mark Press OTM14267 Al Capone Does My Shirts Lit Link Grades 4-6 (Discontinued)

Children will be touched by the themes of stress and family dynamics in Al Capone Does My Shirts while enjoying the authors humor. The activities in this Lit Link will guide their learning through chapter-by-chapter questions. Additional activities in vocabulary word study and personal development are designed according to research-based education principles to improve literacy skills in communication critical thinking and more. About the Novel - It is 1935 and Moose Flanagans dad has just been hired to work as an electrician on Alcatraz Island home to the most famous prison in the United States. What is worse Mooses whole family is moving to the island to take up residence next door to Al Capone Machine Gun Kelly and a host of other notorious convicts. Complicatin gan already dicey situation is Mooses autistic sister Natalie whom the family is trying desperately to have enrolled in the Esterh P. Marinoff School Moose is given more and more responsibility in looking after his sister and helping her to be accepted by his friends. When the school rejects Natalie for the second time Moose writes Al Capone a letter to see if the famous gangster can pull a few strings to help the family out. Will he - Grades 4-6.