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Gennifer Choldenko      

Award Winning Children's Book Author Best Known For "Al Capone Does My Shirts"

Gennifer Choldenko is an award winning children's and young adult author.

Choldenko is best known for her Tales from Alcatraz series, which has sold millions of copies. Book #1: Al Capone Does My Shirts was a Newbery Honor Book and the recipient of twenty other awards.

She has a BA from Brandeis University in English and American Literature and a BFA in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design.

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Finding the Comedy in Tween Tragedy - The New York Times
Not so the woeful putz Liam and his younger siblings in Gennifer Choldenko's ONE-THIRD NERD (Wendy Lamb, 224 pp., $16.99; ages 9 to 12). When you're a  ...

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