They are fighting the "evil librarians" who are attempting to take over the world. Multiple actors voice the central characters, who are oddly named after famous prisons: there's the 13-year old protagonist Alcatraz Smedry, his grandfather Leavenworth, best friends Sing and Quentin, and Bastille, a strong, clever, angry, and thoroughly obnoxious girl who tags along. This first of a series of young adult fantasy novels, originally published in 2007, makes excellent use of cinematic music and digital sound effects. Funny, exciting, and briskly paced." -NPRĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. "An excellent choice to read aloud to the whole family. There’s no way that can all be true, right? And Grandpa says how I keep breaking things is actually an amazing talent. So now I have to go with him to invade the local library and get that sand back, before it's used to conquer the world.
Or so my Grandpa Smedry claimed when he suddenly showed up to rescue me. 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 cult keeping the truth from you-a hidden world filled with magical eyeglasses, talking dinosaurs, and knights with crystal swords! I thought the sand was a joke until evil Librarians came to steal it. It’s not my fault, things just break around me, I swear! And then I accidentally destroyed my foster parents’ kitchen. On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry ( yes, I got named after a prison, don’t ask) received my inheritance: a bag of sand.
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 in paperback with all new covers!Įverything I'd known about the world was a lie.
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