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| Author | : Emma Bland Smith |
| Publisher | : Capstone Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2025 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781669088622 |
Readers will explore the unique daily life of children who grew up on Alcatraz Island, highlighting little-known aspects of life on the island and the people who lived there.
| Author | : Claire Rudolf Murphy |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 2006-09-19 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0802795773 |
Offers a look at the life of the children who grew up on this infamous island with their families throughout its long and diverse history as a military prison, maximum security prison, and site of a Native American uprising, enhanced with period photos, interviews, and first-hand accounts.
| Author | : Haroldene Freeman |
| Publisher | : American Ghost Media |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2019-11-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780999467275 |
A memoir of life growing up on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. Most books about this former Federal prison are about the inmates, this one chronicles life of the guards and their families through the eyes of a young girl growing up on The Rock.
| Author | : Claire Rudolf Murphy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781636172231 |
Alcatraz Island is one of the most infamous places in American history. The maximum-security prison on the "Rock," once home to criminals like Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and the Birdman of Alcatraz, has long since captured our country's imagination. But what few people realize is that during the past 200 years, Alcatraz was not only home to criminals?it was home to many children, too! Over the years, the island has been home to the children of Native Americans, lighthouse keepers, military soldiers, and prison guards.
| Author | : Myrna Frommer |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1999-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780803269002 |
Brings together the childhood memories of a hundred men and women, young and old, who reflect on family life, interaction with the gentile world, and the meaning of peace
| Author | : Gennifer Choldenko |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2006-04-20 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1440629633 |
The Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminals in our history. Al Capone Does My Shirts has become an instant classic for all kids to read! Today I moved to Alcatraz, a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only kid who lives here. There are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cooks or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. And then there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two, though I doubt it. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don't want. I never knew prisons could be picky, but I guess they can. You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to. A Newbery Honor Book A New York Times Bestseller A People magazine "Best kid's Book" An ALA Book for Young Adults An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Krikus Reviews Editor's Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book A New York Public Library "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing" Selection A New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age *"Choldenko's pacing is exquisite. . . . [A] great read."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"Exceptionally atmospheric, fast-paced and memorable!"—Publishers Weekly, starred review *"The story, told with humor and skill, will fascinate readers."—School Library Journal, starred review "Al is the perfect novel for a young guy or moll who digs books by Gordon Korman, or Louis Sachar."—Time Out New York for Kids "Funny situations and plot twists abound!"—People magazine "Heartstopping in some places, heartrending in others, and most of all, it is heartwarming."—San Francisco Chronicle
| Author | : Brandon Sanderson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Clumsiness |
| ISBN | : 9780439925501 |
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
| Author | : Anne Lamott |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2000-09-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0375409173 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes a personal, wise, very funny, and “life-affirming” book (People) that shows us how to find meaning and hope through shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life. "Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same breath." —San Francisco Chronicle Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is "Whatever," and whose evening prayer is "Oh, well." Anne thinks of Jesus as "Casper the friendly savior" and describes God as "one crafty mother." Despite—or because of—her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier nonfiction books. The people in Anne Lamott's real life are like beloved characters in a favorite series for her readers—her friend Pammy, her son, Sam, and the many funny and wise folks who attend her church are all familiar. And Traveling Mercies is a welcome return to those lives, as well as an introduction to new companions Lamott treats with the same candor, insight, and tenderness. Lamott's faith isn't about easy answers, which is part of what endears her to believers as well as nonbelievers. Against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. As she puts it, "My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers."
| Author | : Anna Thumann |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Alcatraz Island (Calif.) |
| ISBN | : 9781461087861 |
My Life on the Rock The Alcatraz Schoolgirl is a series of vignettes about the life of a young girl growing to her teens in unique surroundings. She moved to the Island in June 1934 and resided there until 1944, after the death of her stepfather. In the book she shares her stories about boating to school, watching movies in the prison chapel on family movie night, frightening prisoner escape attempts, and how she and the other children lived and played on the grounds of a Maximum Security Federal Penitentiary.
| Author | : Brandon Sanderson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2016-02-16 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0765378965 |
New deluxe hardcover editions of the Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians middle-grade series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson
