Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians

Experience the action-packed first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson’s laugh-out-loud middle-grade fantasy series like never before—now with all new covers! AN ANCIENT RIVALRY REAWAKENS.

Everything I’d known about the world was a lie.On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry (yes, I got named after a prison, don’t ask), received my inheritance: a bag of sand.

And then I accidentally destroyed my foster parents’ kitchen.

It’s not my fault, things just break around me, I swear! I thought the sand was a joke until evil Librarians came to steal it.

You’re probably thinking, “Librarians are nice people who recommend good books,” but that’s just what they want you to think! It turns out they’re actually a secret cabal keeping the truth from you—a hidden world filled with magical eyeglasses, talking dinosaurs, and knights with crystal swords!