Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

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name = Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
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image_caption = Cover of "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians", Brandon Sanderson's first juvenile fiction novel.
author = Brandon Sanderson
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cover_artist = Marc Tauss
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Fantasy novel
publisher = Scholastic Press
release_date = October 1, 2007 (first edition, hardback)
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 320 pp (first edition, hardback
isbn = ISBN 0-439-92550-9 (first edition, hardback
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"Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians" is a juvenile fiction novel by Brandon Sanderson, published in October 2007 by Scholastic Press. The book is named after its title character, Alcatraz.

Plot summary

"Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians" is a young adult novel which tells the story of Alcatraz Smedry, a young teen who is always breaking things. After receiving a bag of sand for his thirteenth birthday, he stumbles into a strange set of events which begins with a group of librarians stealing his bag of sand, which turns out to be rather unusual sand.

The book starts with Alcatraz setting fire to his foster parents's kitchen.It is revealed that he has been sent to countless of foster parents, all ending up with Alcatraz "destroying" things that were precious to the people taking care of him. Ms. Fletcher, Alcatraz's personal caseworker then arrives at his recent foster parent's home and scolds him about destroying his foster parent's kitchen and leaves.

The next day, however, an old man knocks on the door and claims to be his grandfather and tells Alcatraz that he has a special,but powerful talent for breaking things. He later finds out that there is a special force called the Librarians, whose purpose is to conquer the remaining Free Kingdomers and rule the world.