Book: Alcatraz versus the Evil LibrariansAuthor: Brandon Sanderson
Audience: Grades 4 to 6
In a Nutshell: super-powered klutz finds long-lost family and destiny
Listen, I only have a few minutes, so pay attention. If my fellow librarians find out that I’m talking to you, they'll tie me to an altar made of outdated encyclopedias and make me their latest sacrifice. It’s no less than a traitor like me deserves, but the truth must be told.
The truth is, you and everyone you know are living a lie. You think there are only 7 continents? You think Tyrannosaurus Rex was a huge, ferocious beast? I bet you even think dinosaurs are extinct now. Lies! All lies spread by Librarians and our henchmen in order to control information, and therefore the world. You've probably never even heard of Alcatraz Smedry, thanks to our cover-up. You Hushlanders have no idea how important the Smedry family is, or how great their powers are. Even Alcatraz himself, the great hero of the Free Kingdoms, didn't know until his thirteenth birthday, when he received a small bag of sand in the mail, with a note from his parents. His parents disappeared when he was a baby, and he was raised by a long string of foster families, so you can imagine his confusion. But things get even more confusing when the sand is stolen, his grandfather shows up, and Alcatraz finally learns about his family. For one thing, he and his grandfather are Oculators; they can use specially made eyeglasses to do all sorts of cool things, from tracking footprints to firing laser beams. But there's more: each Smedry is born with a special Talent. These Talents are admired and envied across the Free Kingdoms- heck, we Librarians have been trying to get them for centuries. And Alcatraz has a rare gift indeed, the kind that legends are made of. Almost everything he touches breaks, especially if it's mechanical. His grandpa has the Talent of arriving late to everything; his cousin Sing Sing has a Talent for falling down.
What, you don't think those are useful Talents? Then you have obviously been brainwashed by Librarians. All the Smedry Talents will come in very useful when they undertake their dangerous, and foolish, mission: infiltrating the downtown Library to recover the sand and defeat the Dark Oculator.
Oh no! I see a hair bun and some horn-rimmed glasses headed this way. My time is up. Read Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians, supposedly written by Brandon Sanderson, but really by our hero, Alcatraz. But please, read it soon- before the Librarians pull it off the shelves for good.
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