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Al Capone Does My Shirts                                                         Bo Ryung Yun

The book I read is called "Al Capone Does My Shirts", written by Gennifer Choldenko. She is not an eminent writer, and also not a familiar name to us, such as Roald Dahl. Yet, she is a talented writer. She was born in October 20, 1957. She also has a record of winning the 2005 Newbery Honor citation by this book. The genre of this book is fiction, but the settings are the real existing ones.

While i was reading this book, i couldn't take my eyes off it. It had the writer's own, unique sense of humor that did not allow us to be bored. Overall, i really enjoyed to read the details about the island, and the characters that the author wrote.

Moose, the main character of this book, has just moved to this strange island that the worst convicts from the world are transferred to. He has a 16 years old sister who lives in her own world- mentally retarded. He is an enthusiastic fan of baseball game, but because of his sister, he needs to give up to play the game with his new friends after school because he has to take care of his mentally retarded sister. Natalie, as shown as just now, is a mentally retarded 16 years old sister, but she always remains to be 10 years old.

Gennifer Choldenko has well expressed the pains and sufferings that Moose would have struggled by caring his sister in an interesting way. Not only she expressed Moose's suffering in a funny way, but also she gives us some tension, by showing some big episodes that Moose had to go over because of Natalie. I think Moose is kind of a boy who represents us. Even though he wants to play baseball game after school rather than taking care of his annoying sister, he eventually has to take care of his sister. Same as us. We have to study first rather than playing all day long even though we don't want to.

To conclude, "Al Capone Does My Shirst" is a kind of book that most of the people haven't read yet. You can find out how funny and impressive this book is while you are reading, but still, there are some parts that give you tensions by an unexpected situations.