"I'd like to take this opportunity to point out something important. Should a strange old man of questionable sanity show up at your door - suggesting that he is your grandfather and that you should accompany him upon some quest of mystical import - you should flatly refuse him." Alcatraz Smedry pg. 26 Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
 
Alcatraz Smedry has spent the first thirteen years of his life bouncing from foster home to foster home, you see Alcatraz has a talent for breaking things and each time he breaks something of value his current foster parents send him off to be placed with another family. When a mysterious box of sand arrives the day of his thirteenth birthday followed by the more mysterious appearance of his supposed Grandfather, Alcatraz is swept up into a world where dinosaurs still exists, cars pretty much drive themselves and librarians rule … seriously, the librarians are in charge of everything! And if you think we are evil, you should read about the librarians Alcatraz has to battle. 
 
In this crazy adventure Alcatraz meets relatives he never knew he had, and some that where right there all along, learns that his talent for breaking things is actually very useful and that everything he thought he knew might not be the whole truth. Join Alcatraz, his Grandfather, two cousins, his grandfather's "body guard" and a troop of dinosaurs, as they battle the evil librarians, and their monsters made of bad romance novels, at the downtown library - cue the suspenseful music …
 
If you enjoy reading about librarian's antics and the kids who try to keep them in line, check out these other books:
The Girl Who Cried Monster by R.L. Stine
The Library Card by Jerry Spinelli
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library by Eth Clifford
 
Or you can continue on the journey with Alcatraz in:
Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens