Alcatraz #1: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

A hero with an incredible talent for breaking things. A life or death mission to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from the powerful secret network that rules the world the evil librarians. Alcatraz Smedry doesn’t seem destined for anything but disaster. But on his thirteenth birthday he receives a bag of sand and his life takes a bizarre turn. This is no ordinary bag of sand and it is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing the truth. The sand will give the evil Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them all by infiltrating the local library, armed with nothing but eyeglasses and a talent for klutziness.

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.