Fortunately, Grandpa is using his Talent of arriving late to postpone the pain and Quentin is just talking gibberish, so nothing has been revealed so far.Īlcatraz creates a distraction and rescues Grandpa, but Blackburn comes back, revealing that the Sands of Rashid have already been forged into Lenses. While Grandpa is tortured for information, Alcatraz and the rest of his crew escape from their prison and go to help. They split up and search for the sands, but they are all eventually captured by the Dark Oculator Radrian Blackburn and Ms. Sing creates a distraction by tripping and falling in the library, and the team heads into the employee entrance.

Bastille, a Crystin Knight about Alcatraz's age assigned to protect the Smedrys, is furious at such a reckless plan, but she has no choice but to follow along. They all decide to infiltrate the evil Librarian fortress (the local library) to recover the sand. Alcatraz learns that his penchant for breaking things is actually a powerful Talent that he can learn to control. Alcatraz doesn't believe the man is his Grandpa, but he decides to go along with him after some guy shows up and tries to shoot him.Īlcatraz meets two cousins, Sing Sing Smedry and Quentin Smedry, who have the Talents of tripping and talking gibberish, respectively. The sands are rare and can be forged into powerful Lenses. When he learns that a Librarian has stolen it, they hurry away to try to recover it. The next day, a loony old (but spry) man claiming to be his grandfather shows up and asks about the sand. Unbeknownst to Alcatraz, she is actually a Librarian and has stolen the sand.

Fletcher, arrives and informs Alcatraz that he will be placed in yet another home the next day. He also burns down his foster parents' prized kitchen. On this thirteenth birthday, he receives a package, purportedly from his parents, containing his inheritance: a bag of sand. Alcatraz must stop them, using the only weapon he has: an incredible talent for breaking things.Īlcatraz Smedry is an orphan boy with a propensity for breaking things. It is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing truth.

He soon learns that this is no ordinary bag of sand. On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail-his only inheritance from his father and mother.

Alcatraz vs the evil librarians book 6