The Extraordinary Adventures
of Alfred Kropp
by Rick Yancey
of Alfred Kropp
by Rick Yancey
THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ALFRED KROPP by Rick Yancey
Category: Action-Adventure
Age Recommendation: Grades 6+
Release Date: 12/26/06
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Reviewed by: Cana Rensberger
Rating: 5 Stars
Alfred Kropp is big enough to play football, but too clumsy to be any good, and too dense to remember the playbook. In
fact, Alfred doesn’t really excel at anything. Except for his height and big head, he’s pretty much average. Ordinary. If only
he were smaller, he could go through each day unnoticed.
He has no father and his mother died of cancer when he was only twelve. For two years he’s been juggled between
various foster homes until his Uncle Farrell appears and takes him in. And that’s when his life becomes anything but
ordinary.
A slick, devious stranger offers Uncle Farrell one million dollars to steal a special sword back from Mr. Samson, Farrell’s
boss. Alfred has many questions. How do they know it really belongs to the stranger? What happens to him if his uncle
gets caught for stealing? Why is this man asking them to steal it? Uncle Farrell threatens Alfred. He has no choice. He
either helps steal the sword, or he goes back to foster care.
As soon as Alfred wields the sword in his hands, he knows it is no ordinary sword. He finds out he’s holding Excalibur,
King Arthur’s sword. The same sword that knights have been guarding for centuries. From the moment Alfred steals the
sword he is pitched headlong into a world unlike any he has ever known. A world that clashes with knights, swords, fast
cars, helicopters, daggers, guns, and much more.
Alfred, the ordinary foster kid, finds he has a not-so-ordinary connection to a world forgotten, and through that
connection, he has been charged with saving the world by saving Excalibur. An extraordinary task for an ordinary kid.
My fourteen year-old son grabbed this book from my shelf before I had a chance to start it and daily badgered me to read
it once he’d finished. I will be adding the second and third installments of this series to my library. This action-packed
adventure is a must read. I dare you to try to put it down once you’ve begun. In THE EXTRAORDINARY
ADVENTURES OF ALFRED KROPP, Rick Yancey has done the impossible by merging a world of knights in shining
armor with today’s age of technology, an extraordinary combination! Amazing!
Category: Action-Adventure
Age Recommendation: Grades 6+
Release Date: 12/26/06
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Reviewed by: Cana Rensberger
Rating: 5 Stars
Alfred Kropp is big enough to play football, but too clumsy to be any good, and too dense to remember the playbook. In
fact, Alfred doesn’t really excel at anything. Except for his height and big head, he’s pretty much average. Ordinary. If only
he were smaller, he could go through each day unnoticed.
He has no father and his mother died of cancer when he was only twelve. For two years he’s been juggled between
various foster homes until his Uncle Farrell appears and takes him in. And that’s when his life becomes anything but
ordinary.
A slick, devious stranger offers Uncle Farrell one million dollars to steal a special sword back from Mr. Samson, Farrell’s
boss. Alfred has many questions. How do they know it really belongs to the stranger? What happens to him if his uncle
gets caught for stealing? Why is this man asking them to steal it? Uncle Farrell threatens Alfred. He has no choice. He
either helps steal the sword, or he goes back to foster care.
As soon as Alfred wields the sword in his hands, he knows it is no ordinary sword. He finds out he’s holding Excalibur,
King Arthur’s sword. The same sword that knights have been guarding for centuries. From the moment Alfred steals the
sword he is pitched headlong into a world unlike any he has ever known. A world that clashes with knights, swords, fast
cars, helicopters, daggers, guns, and much more.
Alfred, the ordinary foster kid, finds he has a not-so-ordinary connection to a world forgotten, and through that
connection, he has been charged with saving the world by saving Excalibur. An extraordinary task for an ordinary kid.
My fourteen year-old son grabbed this book from my shelf before I had a chance to start it and daily badgered me to read
it once he’d finished. I will be adding the second and third installments of this series to my library. This action-packed
adventure is a must read. I dare you to try to put it down once you’ve begun. In THE EXTRAORDINARY
ADVENTURES OF ALFRED KROPP, Rick Yancey has done the impossible by merging a world of knights in shining
armor with today’s age of technology, an extraordinary combination! Amazing!