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Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko

Al Capone Shines My Shoes

by Gennifer Choldenko
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  • Sep 8, 2009, 288 pages
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  • Jan 2011, 288 pages
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The note is written on the same paper in the same handwriting as the other one. Your turn, it says.

My face feels hot and sweaty, then cold and clammy. I check the back and then the front again for any other words and stuff the note in my pocket.

Annie’s blue eyes bulge. “Your turn? What’s it your turn for, Moose?”

Excerpted from Al Capone Shines my Shoes © Copyright 2009 by Gennifer Choldenko. Reprinted with permission by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group. All rights reserved.

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