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Bruce Coville
The Magic Shop Book that started it all is back. Russell is sure that the ring is just a silly magic trick, but he follows the instructions and twists the…
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Bruce Coville is the well-known childrens author of MY TEACHER IS AN ALIEN and close to one hundred other books. BRUCE COVILLE: AN AUTHOR KIDS LOVE is based on an…
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Before Peter discovers his newest teacher glows in the dark, he is flying away from Earth in a spaceship full of aliens.
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Pre-publication title inferred by Library of Congress Control Number 2015012966.
He came from the stars – and sixth grade will never be the same!
The aliens have finally made contact! But when the first ambassador from another planet arrives, he…
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When an accidental spell brings a mysterious stone toad to life, and it hops away with her human friend William between its jaws, Fauna must use her magic and her…
Filled with the most popular legends about the mythical unicorn, with original poems and stories, this collection features the talents of such fantasy writers as Madeleine L'Engle, Jane Yolen, and…
Neville Folliot, a 19th century explorer, goes missing and his brother Clive sets out to find him. He stumbles across The Dungeon, a place of strange atmospheric conditions, beings from…
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Pleskit and friends have stowed away on an alien spaceship filled with the Fatherly One’s worst enemies. When the ship lands on a far away planet, they escape. But where…
Tim meets an alien named Beebo–an extraterrestrial secretly living on Earth who now desperately needs Pleskit’s help in returning home. The boys rise to the occasion for this bold mission…
When the hamsters in Ms. Weintraub’s room start acting strange, everyone thinks the problem must be the alien vitamins Pleskit has been feeding them. But even after Pleskit stops the…
When Tim Tompkins finds Beebo, a two-foot-high orange alien, in his bedroom one afternoon, he knows he’s in for trouble. Beebo’s pranks spin out of control, however, when he locks…
Includes an excerpt from: My teacher fried my brains.
Could your teacher be an alien? Do your research with this boxed set of all four books in the bestselling, hilarious sci-fi quartet from the author who inspired Christopher Paolini’s…
Angus Cairns is a brownie, a magical creature with a fastidious nature. Alex Carhart is the messiest eleven-year-old in the United States of America. Together, this unlikely pair embarks on…
To save heavily pollulted Earth and his ailing mother, eleven-year-old Hurricane must travel to magical worlds, aboard a giant, winged tiger, to rescue the wind and other elements.
A collection of nine short stories featuring a ghost, a goblin, a giant, and other unusual creatures.
Now in paperback–the craziest adventure-comedy-fantasy-mystery from bestselling novelist Bruce Colville. Unquestionably weird, but nevertheless highly addictive – School Library Journal.
Shy Juliet Dove leaves Mr. Elives’ magic shop with the amulet of Helen of Troy–a virtual man magnet. She soon has the attention of every boy in town. Unfortunately, the…
When Charlie, a habitual liar, steals a skull from a magic shop, he discovers that the skull compels its owner to be honest. Working through several issues, Charlie realizes how…
Visit Bruce Coville’s Magic Shop in these five fantastic books for middle grade readers, together in a boxed set perfect for gift giving.
Coville’s bestselling, four-part My Teacher series–about four kids who discover their teachers are actually aliens from outer space who are to determine Earth’s future in the universe–is reissued with stunning…
Enjoy the complete Moongobble and Me collection from bestselling author Bruce Coville! Edward is bored with his life in the small town of Pigbone. But things get much more exciting…
Every spell Maybelle Clodnowski casts seems to backfire causing magical mix-ups that throw the entire twon into an uproar. Then she discovers a secret enemy is working against her. Can…
Four of Bruce Coville’s most hilarious alien adventures are now available in a collectible boxed set! Look out for Aliens Ate My Homework–soon to be a major motion picture from…
William wants to know what’s making the strange moans that drift through the castle where he was raised.
When Rod Allbright’s cousin Elspeth arrived for a visit the day after school let out for the summer, Rod thought his vacation was ruined.
In this classic novel, now reissued with an exciting new look, Rod Allbright is off to Mentat to find his lost father and the mysteriously vanished crew member, Snout, the…
Another adventure awaits fans of Bruce Coville. William has lived in the castle all his life, but it isn’t until he’s eleven that he discovers Igor, who lives under the…
Young Edward is the assistant to Moongobble the Magician–a good man but a terrible magician. When the Society of Magicians threatens to cast Moongobble out, he and Edward must make…
In order to complete his third Mighty Task and become a member of the Societyof Magicians, Moongobble must recover the Queen’s Belly Button, an evil stonethat was taken by a…
For his second Mighty Task, Moongobble the magician must bring back a bottle containing the tears of the Weeping Werewolf. Edward, Fireball the dragon, and Urk the toad agree to…
Edward and Moongobble are on a quest. They’re out to break the curse of the Oggledy Nork because Moongobble is convinced every curse can be broken. But when it comes…
The latest adventure of Edward and Moongobble, the bumbling magician, takes the friends on a mission to Monster Mountain to find the runaway daughter of the queen of the Mischief…
Rod is surprised when a miniature spaceship lands in his school science project and reveals five tiny aliens, who ask his help in apprehending an interstellar criminal. Now reissued with…
The beloved Colville retells the only comedy in Norse mythology, complete with talking goats, cross-dressing gods, and his signature warm wit. After Thor’s magic hammer is stolen, Thialfi, the goat…
Pleskit takes his pet Veeblax, a shape-shifting creature, to school to show off. Before long the Veeblax is in big trouble. And if the enemies of the alien mission have…
When Pleskit, the world’s first alien third-grader, and his friend Tim get fed up with bully Jordan Lynch, they decide to use a molecule depressor to teach him a lesson…
Pleskit finds that peanut butter makes him chase girls and try to kiss them. Soon, the purple alien has to deal with screaming tabloid headlines, a rumor mill that just…
Pleskit and Tim swap lunches, leading to unforeseen consequences in this fourth book of the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth-Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate…
Fellow sixth graders, an alien and a human, become unlikely friends in this hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework, Bruce Coville…
