This book is around two hundred and thirty pages long, each page as good as the next. The paper back cover is a bit childish and does not do the book any favours but the paper is of excellent quality, with a nice colour to it.

The book is about a boy called Moose Flanagan (Matthew) who moves to Alcatraz island (famous for its  high quality prison) with his Mum, Dad and his older sister (Natalie whom he has to look after all the time). He moves here from San Francisco

His dad gets a new job as an electrician on the island and when they move there starts doing night shifts as a guard for extra money. His mum is desperate to get Natalie in to a special school for her disability (autism) of the mind.  He meets other children who live on the island, and one of them also goes to his school, Piper. They decide to create a money maker in school by getting other children's clothes washed by criminals in the daily island washing, which also involved Anne and Jimmy putting clothes through their washing (which ends up getting them all in to trouble).

The book is set in the year 1935 but the only reference to the dates are at the beginning of each chapter, all forty, which is the only annoying and bad part about the book.

The book is a real page turner and I would recommend it to any one. Overall I would give this book a really good score of eight and a half out of ten.