Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

from A_Reader_of_Fictions

As a librarian, there was absolutely no way I could pass up this book. Evil librarians? I was so there. And boy did this book deliver the absurdities for which I was hoping. The story is told in a breaking the fourth wall kind of way, wherein the author (Sanderson claims to be Alcatraz who is pre...

from YouthGPL

Kearsten says: Alcatraz has no idea he's a heir to a mysterious and special...bag of sand. On his 13th birthday, everything he thought he knew has changed, and it's up to him to defeat the evil Librarians (who've been lying about the truth for many years) and save the world from evil Librarian-do...

from westkids

Who would have thought that all the librarians of the world actually control the information to which the rest of us have access? On his thirteenth birthday, Alcatraz Smedry discovers that everything he thought he knew was bogus. With the help of a newly discovered grandfather from a parallel rea...

from cybrarianne

Brian Sanderson has written an entertaining and action-packed fantasy, with nods to Douglas Adams and a few very thinly veiled references to J.K. Rowling. Alcatraz (our hero) has lived with numerous foster families, each experience ending in some disaster. For Alcatraz breaks things...really, he ...

from TheMightyQuinn

Alcatraz is speeding through foster homes, thanks to his unusual talent for breaking things, but on his thirteenth birthday he receives a mysterious bag of sand from his long lost parents and a strange man claiming to be his grandfather shows up on his doorstep, launching Alcatraz into an unexpec...