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Books For Youth - Fiction - Fantasy
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp.
Yancey, Rick (author).
Oct. 2005. 300p. Bloomsbury, hardcover, $16.95 (1-58234-693-3). Grades 9-12.
REVIEW.
First published August, 2005 (Booklist).
Everyone around Alfred Kropp is dying. And all because the unassuming 15-year-old took something he shouldn’t have. Darned kid. Then the big lug goes on to save the world. Sound incredible? Well, not when you learn that what he’s taken is Excalibur, King Arthur’s sword, the most powerful weapon on earth, which has somehow survived in the custody of descendants of the original Knights of the Round Table. Of course, taking the sword is one thing; keeping it, as Alfred discovers, is quite another, especially given international forces--for good and evil--are after Excalibur, too, and they will stop at nothing to get it back. Heads literally roll in the ensuing, intensely violent and cinematic action, as Alfred discovers enough astonishing things about himself to fire a whole host of sequels, which are sure to follow. For readers willing to suspend disbelief, Yancey’s first novel for YAs is a white-knuckle, page-turning read. — Michael Cart
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