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Aliens Ate My Homework

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For me, this rates among the ranks of the Harry Potter books. Even though I'm about 5 grades above the reading level for this book, I laugh every ten pages, on average. I read this book like four years ago, and it's even better the second time.

Rod Allbright is the most honest person you'll ever meet. He can't tell a lie if his life depended on it. This causes him some trouble, as you might imagine, but not as much as the aliens on the good ship FERKEL who come crash-landing through his window. These are Captain Grakker, Madame Pong, Tar Gibbons (a gibbon is actually a real-life tropical Asian ape with a slender body and long arms), Snout, and Phil. Soon Ron is drafted to the position of Deputy to help them arrest the interstellar criminal BKR.

The book starts off pretty quick--not even twenty pages pass before the aliens land. However, the action is not immediate. This gives us a good chance to meet the characters, instead of just watching them run from explosions and stuff. And they are all pretty well-developed, with the possible exception of Phil, since he only has twenty or thirty lines altogether.

Bruce Coville's is some of the best writing I've ever seen. There's so many little details and subtle messages that really help the book move and add depth to the characters. At the same time, he remembers that a kid is thinking this, and fills it with realistic boyish wonder and actions. Well, except not being able to ever tell a lie. But hey, that's what makes Rod Rod.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has even a slight interest in bizarre. It's the fine writing from Bruce Coville seen here that makes me wonder why that haven't adapted any of his works into a movie.

This book is about Rod Allbright, a boy who just can't lie. Ask him a question, and you're sure to get a good answer. Well, at school, He has a big enemy named Billy Becker, A tiny little kid who can beat up every kid in the sixth grade. You would think Rod would fight back, but he can't fight. But all this bad luck changes when a minuture alien ship comes, with a few visitors in it. Soon Rod gets to get fond of them, and feels like he wants them to stay. Well, they do stay, because they need to catch a high-security criminal who did the worst crime in all of the Galaxy: cruelty. And his name is BKR (Bee Kay Are). This story is a great book with lots of wonders. I hope you, too, will read this book and find out the fun of it all!

The book is like a mystery. The genre of this book is fiction. I will recommand this book to some one who likes mysteries book. The book is about a kid that found aliens in his house. The aliens were scared of them. One of the aliens were pointing a gun at Rod's head. My favorite part of the book is when the other aliens were shooting at Rod. The character is Rod and the aliens.

My opinion for this book is the sometimes the characters in this bool say stupid things, but sometimes the things they say are pretty funny. I would prefer people to read this book because once you start reading it you will get hooked on it and want to read more. this book is not really sixth grade level but it is still a good book.

I give this book a 5 star rating. This book is about aliens landing on earth but they lose their module that enlarges them so they are stuck being small. Then a kid named Rod found them and took them home totry help them. Then the aliens helped him with his bully problem, but someone named BKR tries to hurt Rod so Rod got beamed up. Rod was threatened by him and took two of his family members as hostage so BKR could get Grakker, the alien and his crew Madame Pong, Tar Gibbons, Snout, Phil, and Rod. If you enjoy aliens shrinking, action,weird things happening, then this is the book for you but I wouldn't read this book to a 7 year old or younger because it's a little too complicated. I liked this book because it was very action packed .Bruce Coville's other books are "I Left My Shoes In Dimenson X","The Search for Snout" and more , lots more.

Lots of Fun!! Aliens Ate My Homework is an intriguing story about a little boy who is thrown head first into a science fiction adventure. Rod, the main character, is enlisted to search out a space criminal hiding here on Earth with the help of his new found extraterestrial friends. This book is as exciting as it is delightful. The story is not only well written but is appealing to boys and girls alike. While the entertainment value of this book is high, the honesty of Rod is most impressive. With so much dishonesty in the world and the saturation of our children in it. I find this truthful character to be a refreshing change. I would suggest it to all. My class loved it!

I love this book, it's so imaginative and funny. It's Bruce Coville's best book yet! Every time I read this I can't stop laughing... This book is very amusing, but it also has a weird deep side to it that makes you want to read it again and again.

This was a fabulous book! From a kid's point of view, this would have to be the best sci-fi book ever written. The characters are unforgettable from the bossy captain Grakker to the diplomatic Madam Pong. It is a great book and it really gets you wrapped up in it. I have to warn you, as soon as your done with the series, you'll go through a real depressed episode when all books will seem pathetic compared to what you just read.

Its plotline was well advanced, and you knew the characters a lot more than in other books. I would have preffered it to focus a bit more on the alien's view of Earth, like in Coville's "My Teacher Is An Alien Series." BKR was a pretty good villian, despite his obviousness; he was definetely Billy Becker from the very beginning, because there needed to be a way for the two worlds to meet. That was probably the only real simply obvious part in the plot. All the others were and will be tied up in the sequels. All and all, a pretty good book with one blank spot: The main character.

"Aliens Ate My Homework" was a wonderfully well written book about aliens and their adventures. Bruce Coville created a wide variety of characters who lead you through a brilliant plot. Rod Allbright- a sixth grader who cannot tell a lie, Grakker- the hot tempered captain of the good ship Ferkel, Madame Pong- a highly respected diplomatic officer on the Ferkel, Flinge Iblik (Snout)- the Ferkel's Mental Officer, Tar Gibbons- a warrior who could kill you with his little finger if so desired, and Phillogenus esk Piemondum (otherwise known as Phil)- The ship's Scientific Officer (pretty much the ship's handy man). These are the assorted charcters that Bruce Coville decided should come alive in the masterfully written "Aliens Ate My Homework." Other books you might like (if you enjoy this one) are "I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X," The Search For Snout," and "Aliens Stole My Body" all of which were written by Bruce Coville and are included in the Rod Allbright series.