His tomb does not age because he broke time. Along the way he finds the tomb of Alcatraz the first, who was the first wielder of the breaking talent. Alcatraz escapes by biting through it, and his friends follow suit. Soon after the three travel the library with Kazan's talent they activate another trip wire which encloses them in a hardened goo. He finds them because they are both abstractly lost. After Bastille and Alcatraz continue to venture Kazan finds them by utilizing his talent of getting lost. At one point Alcatraz finds Bastille caught in a net, and he breaks the ropes that bind her. The curators speak long forgotten languages which he can understand because of his Translator's Lenses.

Alcatraz is travelling through the library alone and he is often pestered by the curators who ask him to take a book at the cost of his soul. Once he arrives he is immediately separated from the rest of the group consisting of Bastille and her mother Draulin, Alcatraz's uncle Kazan, and Alcatraz's cousin Australia. Sanderson continues the series as Alcatraz goes to the Library of Alexandria and tries to rescue his Dad and Grandpa from the soul stealing library curators. It is preceded by Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians.Īlcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones is the second novel in the Alcatraz series. Alcatraz Versus the Knights of CrystalliaĪlcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones is a juvenile fiction novel by Brandon Sanderson, published in November 2008 by Scholastic Press.

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