My Teacher Fried My Brains

Well, a bit ago I started Bruce Coville's four part alien saga. I figured now was a good chance to read the next one, with plans to finish it off in the first half of the year. Previously on My Teacher is an Alien, it was a pretty solid read with some clever humor and commentary alongside mostly goo......more

Just read the author bio and see he grew up not far from me. Sweet! This was the best of the first three books. The main character has his “brain fries,” which makes him smarter. Thus we get a character who is emotionally a child but in most other cognitive capacities is as smart as an adult. This gi......more

This is the sequel to My Teacher Is an Alien (the second in a series of four), and while it didn't have a climactic alien defeat scene to make my kids jump with excitement, it was a much deeper character study, which meant it stimulated some great conversation amongst us. The protag of this story is......more

Last year, Duncan Dougal was a minor player in his sixth grade class's struggle to save their town from the alien who was masquerading as a teacher at their school. Now he's in seventh grade, hoping to turn over a new leaf and be a better, or at least less troublesome, student in his junior high, wi......more

A really fun book that's just as good as the first one, My Teacher is an Alien. Bruce Coville is a really excellent children's author that manages to weave in some deeper themes and surprising emotion into his stories without sacrificing the entertainment value. He writes characters and inner monologu......more