Bruce Coville's Ufos [Paperback]

Bruce Coville (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up

Keep Watching the Skies!

Featuring "A Lot of Saucers" by Harlan Ellison, plus other tales of first contact with some of the strangest aliens ever imagined!

"Snnslt Gyrlhpt" Michael Markiewicz
"Shadow of the Pyramid" Noreen Doyle
"The Toy Room" David M. Honigsberg
"Spirits from the Vasty Deep" John Morressy
"Dragon Reserve, Home Eight" Diana Wynne Jones
"Fireflies" Nancy Etchemendy

...and more!

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-8-An uneven collection of 13 new and previously published tales by children's and adult science-fiction authors. The protagonists range from a newspaper reporter investigating strange disturbances of nature in Al Sarrantonio's "Overseer" to an alien child abducted by earthlings in David Honigsberg's "The Toy Room." Several stories feature young people, including Nicholas Fisk's standout "The Boy, the Dog, and the Spaceship" and Tim Waggoner's excellent "Buried Treasure." However, a number of the selections are less accessible for this audience, such as Harlan Ellison's "A Lot of Saucers," which includes scenes of carnage and difficult vocabulary, and Diana Wynne Jones's "Dragon Reserve, Home Eight," which has an intricate and sometimes confusing plot. Each story is illustrated with a black-and-white drawing on the title page; short biographies of the authors and illustrators appear at the end of the book. Middle-grade readers will undoubtedly enjoy several of these selections, but Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (1999) and Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds (2000, both Avon) offer stories that are more uniform in style and readability.
Leah J. Sparks, Bowie Public Library, MD
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Bruce Coville was born is Syracuse, New York, and grew up in a rural area north of the city, around the corner from his grandparents' dairy farm. He lives in a brick house in Syracuse with his wife, his youngest child, three cats, and a dog named Thor. Though he has been a teacher, a toymaker, and a gravedigger, her prefers writing. His dozens of books for young readers include the bestselling My Teacher Is a Alien series, Goblins in the Castle, Aliens Ate My Homework, and Sarah's Unicorn.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins (May 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380802570
• ISBN-13: 978-0380802579
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,455,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.