...Evil Librarians? Just finished this awesome Jr/Teen 'fantasy' book called "Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson. It was a riot with the mixture of story and lecture to the reader. It's really hard to explain but one part talks about how information can either free or control a country (or in this case a kingdom). As information specialists, Librarians have been able to deceive and control the Hushlands and it is up to the Smedry family to defeat the Librarians and let the truth be known. Each Smedry has a unique and valuable talent and are named after Prisons, or as they tell it the Librarians name prisons after the Smedrys. Alcatraz has the talent to break things, his Grandfather, Leavenworth, has the talent of always arriving late, his cousin, Sing, has the talent of tripping, and his other cousin, Quentin has the talent of speaking gibberish. Throw in a knight named Bastille and you have a group of heroes ready to free us from the control of the Evil Librarians.
I would recommend this one to all you families out there who are looking for a great read aloud with you 5-8th grade boys but girls would love it too. Just don't believe everything you read about librarians. After all I will let you read the book!
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