Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

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AN ANCIENT RIVALRY REAWAKENS.

Everything I''d known about the world was a lie.

On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry (yes, I got named after a prison, donât ask) received my inheritance: a bag of sand. And then I accidentally destroyed my foster parentsâ kitchen. Itâs not my fault, things just break around me, I swear!

I thought the sand was a joke until evil Librarians came to steal it. Youâre probably thinking, âLibrarians are nice people who recommend good books,â but thatâs just what they want you to think! It turns out theyâre actually a secret cult keeping the truth from youâ"a hidden world filled with magical eyeglasses, talking dinosaurs, and knights with crystal swords!

Or so my Grandpa Smedry claimed when he suddenly showed up to rescue me. So now I have to go with him to invade the local library and get that sand back, before it''s used to conquer the world. And Grandpa says how I keep breaking things is actually an amazing talent. Thereâs no way that can all be true, right?

Will I ever make it back home alive?

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