Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz Series #1) by Brandon Sanderson
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- Age Range: 9 to 12
- Pub. Date: October 2007
- 308pp
- Sales Rank: 343,274
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- Series: Alcatraz Series, #1
- ISBN-13: 9780439925501
- ISBN: 0439925509
Synopsis
A hero with an incredible talent...for breaking things. A life-or-death mission...to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network...the evil Librarians.
Alcatraz Smedry doesn't seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world. The sand will give the Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them!...by infiltrating the local library, armed with nothing but eyeglasses and a talent for klutziness.
Biography
Brandon Sanderson grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University and lives in Provo, Utah, with his wife, Emily, and son, Joel. He has been chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s A Memory of Light, the concluding volume of the bestselling Wheel of Time series.
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A creative idea with an okay resultby CatsInSpace
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August 31, 2009: Alcatraz is a young boy who is stuck in the foster system, moving from house to house because he has a way of somehow breaking something valuable at each home he visits. However, on his thirteenth birthday he receives a mysterious package containing a bag of sand, and his life takes an odd turn. Soon a man shows up in a self-driving car claiming to be Alcatraz's grandfather and wanting the sands - and Alcatraz - to come with him in a fight against...librarians? Only the sand has mysteriously disappeared. The story follows Alcatraz as he learns about the world as he knows it vs. reality.
This story feels at times as if it were written by a librarian for librarians. The author references the uselessness of librarian training, librarian's propensity for packing books so tightly on the shelves no one can get them out, and librarians seeking to control the world. Most of the jokes seem as if written to cause librarians to laugh at themselves. Does this translate to the young reader? Perhaps for some, but not for this reader.I found myself mostly distracted by the narrator's constant asides to the reader. The author uses such an aside to start each chapter, usually trying to point out how hard it was to write this book or how lucky we are to have a copy or stressing he is not a hero. I found these parts of the text rather useless and they made me annoyed with the character. I would prefer the author had just let the story unfold (showing) without having Alcatraz constantly telling us about himself, his motives, his history, etc. I enjoyed some of the clever language used in this book, and the characters were pretty well developed with interesting talents. Overall, though, I wasn't too entertained by the story.My 12 year old son loved this bookby Mom_with_books
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August 17, 2009: He had read all 5 of the Percy Jackson series and appreciated books with a great sense of humor. He found it with this 1st book and was very excited to find that it too was part of a series. I sent him the 2nd book (he is away at camp) and have pre-ordered the 3rd. I can't wait to read it too!
I Also Recommend: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #1).
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