From the book jacket:
"When Moose's family moves to Alcatraz Island so his father can work as a guard and his sister can attend a special school in San Francisco, he has to leave his friends and his winning baseball team behind. But it's worth it, right? If his sister, Natalie, can get help, maybe his family will be normal. But on Alcatraz his dad is so buy, he's never around. His mom's preoccupation with Natalie's condition (today, it would be called autism) is even worse now that there's no extended family to help with her tantrums and constant needs. And of course, there's never enough money."
But Natalie is too old for the special school her parents had counted on, and Moose doesn't know how he can help. With the aid of Piper, the warden's daughter, Moose tries to communicate with the most notorious and famous prisoner on Alcatraz...Al Capone.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
"The Game" by Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers has written a captivating, exciting book that is a wonderfully entertaining read. The basketball games are described in great detail, with all the drama of live games. Life off the court is also detailed, with family, friends and neighborhood all woven beautifully into the story. Highly enjoyable.
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"Shooting the Moon" by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Once again, Frances Dowell brings characters to vivid life in this wonderfully written novel. Readers get a glimpse into a family that is tying to cope with the stress of a son who volunteers for the Army and is anticipating being sent to Vietnam. A captivating read, sure to generate Newbery talk.
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"Paper Trail" by Barbara Snow Gilbert
From the book jacket:
"Someone was calling his name.
The boy stopped wriggling.
His mother. No. She was supposed to be running in the other direction, decoying the Soldiers of God away from him. The boy's father was the one who was supposed to circle back, and he wouldn't do so unless the woods were clear.
The boy edged up to the knothole. He blinked against the light. And the distinctive crack of a Sako TRG-21 sniper rifle shattered the glassy stillness of the April morning."
So the stage is set...the fifteen-year-old boy is on the run, with his parents, and he's peering through a knothole in a hollow log. They are trying to escape from the Soldiers of God, a militia group that the father has infiltrated as an undercover agent for the FBI. What follows is a story that kept this reader on the edge of her seat...not being able to read and turn the pages fast enough, and yet not wanting this story to end. It's a story that will stay with you.
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"Someone was calling his name.
The boy stopped wriggling.
His mother. No. She was supposed to be running in the other direction, decoying the Soldiers of God away from him. The boy's father was the one who was supposed to circle back, and he wouldn't do so unless the woods were clear.
The boy edged up to the knothole. He blinked against the light. And the distinctive crack of a Sako TRG-21 sniper rifle shattered the glassy stillness of the April morning."
So the stage is set...the fifteen-year-old boy is on the run, with his parents, and he's peering through a knothole in a hollow log. They are trying to escape from the Soldiers of God, a militia group that the father has infiltrated as an undercover agent for the FBI. What follows is a story that kept this reader on the edge of her seat...not being able to read and turn the pages fast enough, and yet not wanting this story to end. It's a story that will stay with you.
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