Emma Bland Smith

Nonfiction picture book biography about Elliot Michener, prisoner # AZ-578 at Alcatraz- the toughest prison in the country. As Elliot plotted how to escape the unescapable prison, walking the grounds picking up handballs when he stumbled upon a key. Instead of keeping the key Elliot decided to turn in to the guards and was rewarded with a new job, the gardener of Alcatraz. Elliot used his new job to start hatching a plan and a device that would allow him to swim to shore. But Elliot soon found such a love for gardening that he no longer wanted to escape. But his story doesn't end there......… (mer)