Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
by Blumenthal, Karen
YALSA Award for Excellence in NF for YouSLJ Best BookCriminalAmerican/U.S. HistoryJunior Library Guild SelectionYALSA Readers' Choice2011 Summer Jr./Sr. HighYALSA Popular Paperbacks
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AR Book Level
9.1
AR Points
5
Word Count
28,446
Interest Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
143921 EN
About this book
This chronicle of Prohibition in the United States covers the period from 1920 to 1933, when it was illegal to sell or drink alcohol, and discusses how a movement to heal social ills became a burden to ordinary citizens and fame to gangsters.
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