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Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

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2009
2016
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21 chapters
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 Alcatraz Smedry*
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Alcatraz Smedry*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of books geared toward young readers featuring the main character named Alcatraz Smedry.  This series is by Brandon Sanderson.

1) Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
2) Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
3) Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
4) Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens
5) Alcatraz Versus the Dark Talent
Copyright © 2009 by Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC
For Jane, who does her best to keep me looking fashionable, and does it in such an endearing way that I can’t even convince myself to wear mismatched socks anymore (except on Thursdays)
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Chapter breaks are very useful. They let you skip a lot of boring parts of stories. For instance, after tailing - then losing - my mother, we had a pleasant drive back to Keep Smedry. The most exciting thing that happened was when we stopped so that Folsom could use the restroom.

Characters in books, you may have noticed, rarely have to go potty. There are several reasons for this. Many books - unlike this one - simply aren’t real, and everyone knows fictional characters can "hold it" as long as they need to. They just wait until the end of the book before using the restroom.

In books like this one, which are real, we have more problems. After all we’re not fictional characters, so we have to wait until chapter breaks when nobody is looking. It can get hard for longer chapters, but we’re quite self-sacrificing. (I really feel sorry for the people in Terry Pratchett’s novels though.)

 

Added: 01-Nov-2018
Last Updated: 20-Nov-2019

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For, you see, the most important truths can always withstand a little examination.

Publications

 19-Apr-2016
Starscape
Kindle e-Book
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Date Issued:
19-Apr-2016
Format:
Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$9.99
Pages*:
340
Read:
Once
Internal ID:
1856
Publisher:
ISBN:
1-466-86555-5
ISBN-13:
978-1-466-86555-6
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Scott Brundage  - Cover Artist
Hayley Lazo - Illustrator
Isaac Stewart - Map
From amazon.com:

The Knights of Crystallia is the third action-packed fantasy adventure in the Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series for young readers by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. These fast-paced and funny novels are now available in deluxe hardcover editions illustrated by Hayley Lazo.

In this third Alcatraz adventure, Alcatraz Smedry has made it to the Free Kingdoms at last. Unfortunately, so have the evil Librarians--including his mother! Now Alcatraz has to find a traitor among the Knights of Crystallia, make up with his estranged father, and save one of the last bastions of the Free Kingdoms from the Evil Librarians.

"Beneath the wild humor, there are surprisingly subtle messages about responsibility and courage." - School Library Journal
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Author(s)

Brandon Sanderson  
Birth: 19 Dec 1975 Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Notes:
From Rythm of War (Kindle edition):

BRANDON SANDERSON grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He is the author of such bestsellers as the Mistborn® trilogy and its sequels, The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, and The Bands of Mourning; the Stormlight Archive novels, The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer, and Rhythm of War; and other novels, including The Rithmatist and Steelheart for young adults and the Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series for middle-grade readers. In 2013 he won a Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Emperor's Soul, set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time® sequence.

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