Alcatraz #3: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

by Sanderson, Brandon

• ISBN13: 9780439925556
• ISBN10: 043992555X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Press

Summary

When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make apilgrimage to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia,the Smedry home base, Alcatraz is shocked to seethat he is a legend. When he was a baby, he wasstolen by the Evil Librarians, and his mother, aLibrarian herself, was behind the whole thing.Now, with his estranged father, who is actingstrange indeed; his best friend Bastille, who hasbeen stripped of her armor; and Grandpa Smedry,who is, as always, late to everything (that’s hisTalent), Alcatraz tries to save a city under siege.From whom? Why, the Librarians of course! And,in particular, an especially evil Librarian who hasfollowed the Smedrys to Crystallia in hopes ofshattering the city: Alcatraz’s very own mother!In this third book in the Alcatraz Smedry series byacclaimed fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson, it’sup to Alcatraz, a boy with all the wrong Talents, tosave the day!

Author Biography

Brandon Sanderson is the author of the Mistborn Trilogy and Elantris, which Orson Scott Card called "the finest novel of fantasy to be written in many years." Alcatraz Smedry Versus the Evil Librarians is Brandon's first book for kids. He writes and plays with swords in Provo, Utah.