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My Teacher Glows in the Dark (My Teacher is an Alien, Bk. 3)

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My Teacher Glows in the Dark is the third book in Bruce Coville's My Teacher series. While these books are written primarily for a 4th-6th grade audience, I as an adult have had a lot of fun reading them. I especially love Coville's way of presenting each story in the series. The series revolves around three pretty normal kids on Earth - the smart and brave Susan Simmons, nerdy dreamer Peter Thompson, and bully turned nice guy with newly-acquired brain-fried intelligence Duncan Dougal. Susan narrated the first book in the series, My Teacher is an Alien, wherein she discovers that her new teacher is an alien and joins up with Peter to stop him from kidnapping five students. Duncan narrated the second book, My Teacher Fried My Brains, in which we see inside his unhappy life, come to understand why he lashes out at people the way he does, and admire his effort to turn over a new leaf in life with the help of an artificially-advanced intelligence. Now, in My Teacher Glows in the Dark, it is Peter's turn to tell a part of the story.

While this is book three of the series, it actually fills in the gap separating books one and two. Peter left with the alien Broxholm at the end of book one and showed up back on earth at the end of book two, and now we get to hear what he has been doing up in space over the course of the earth's summer. I found this to be the most enjoyable book of the series so far; instead of dealing with an alien among humans, we now have a human among aliens, and this makes for a decidedly entertaining read. We meet all kinds of aliens, learn a few things about a few of their cultures, and get to see all kinds of alien technology in use. In addition to this, the human side of the story takes on much more significance. As luck would have it, the Interplanetary Council is debating whether or not to destroy Earth, and Peter finds himself smack dab in the middle of trying to save the world he left behind. Peter's friendships with several aliens on board the ship are really quite touching, as is his passion for doing whatever he, a boy of about twelve, can do to save his home planet.

With the action taking place in space, there is a much stronger science fiction element to this book than its predecessors, leading me to believe that many a young reader would simply eat this book up. With new and increasingly unusual aliens waiting around every corner, futuristic machines doing amazing things all over the place, and Earth's future hanging precariously in the balance, My Teacher Glows in the Dark sets the stage for a most promising climax in the fourth and final book of the series, My Teacher Flunked the Planet.

I think it was a awsome book.Its about a kid named peter.He meats a alien on earth and asks to come with him to a spaceship named New Jersy.He takes peter thire.He finds out that a alien council is going to blow up earth.To find out why the council wants to blow up earth you will have to read the book.
I liked this book because every chapter leaves you hanging.A lot of things hapen on New Jersey.He meats a lot of diffrent aliens.The book had very good descriptions of the aliens.Thats why I liked the book.

In the third book of this engaging sci-fi kid's series, we follow the path of Peter (the boy that disappeared at the end of the first book, My Teacher is an Alien).

Peter goes with Broxholm, the alien that held his teacher prisoner and finds out that Broxholm isn't the monster that he made him out to be. It's actually revealed that when Broxholm was on Earth he was taking part in a mission to determine the fate of the Earth; a mission that Peter finds himself right of the middle of. Peter meets many new life forms up in space, many of which have a very curious view of humans.

I really enjoyed this book because it pushes a sense of morality. The alien life forms that Peter meets are a little fearful of humans due to their unpredictability and tendencies towards war. Although a sense of elitism can be detected from the alien council, their concern is genuine: they are concerned that as humans progress further into space they will spread their negative ways across the galaxy. Can we honestly blame them for being at least concerned?

Darien Summers, author of The Mischievous Hare, a children's book.The Mischievous Hare

This book takes place in space where Peter Thompson tells his story of what has happened to him before his friends joined him there. His friends were still on Earth then he came back to get them because he needed their help up there. They asked him to tell the whole story of what happened to him so he did. That is what the whole book is about.

I recomend this book to anyone who would like to go to space with a bunch of aliens and live on a space ship.

This is a great series to introduce a pre-teen to sci-fi! I would start out with the first book (My Teacher is an Alien.) I think this book would come next -- when I was a pre-teen, this was my favorite book of the series. "My Teacher Fried my Brains" would be another great book for someone who liked this one, becuase it describes what happened to the other characters during this time period. "My Teacher Flunked the Planet" (the last book) is okay, but the constant social commentary can grow tiresome. Highly recommended.

My students loved all the books in the series. Essential if you want to continue the "My teacher is an Alien" saga.

I already knew what to expect from the book ,being that I read it as a child, but what surprised me was the quality of this book that I bought for just $.01. I expected it to be worn out or dog-eared but, to my amazement, it was in very good condition. Now my kids are enjoying this classic book.

The book I read is called My Teacher Glows in the Dark. It was a really good book. The book was about a boy named Peter. He went into space with an alien named Broxholm. Peter spent five months with Broxholm. Peter decided to go with Broxholm into space. Peter had a change of mind; he wanted to go back to earth but it was too late. Peter and his friends Susan and Duncan suspected something wierd about their teacher. They went to his house when they looked into the window and saw something wierd. Their teacher glows in the dark they couldn't believe what they were seeing. Peter's teacher dies in the ship and Peter and Broxholm can't help him to get better. If you what to see what happens at the end of the book, go to your nearest library and check it out. Remember My Teacher Glows in the Dark.
By Lance King

I like the inventions and all the alien gizmos. Peter's alien tutor is funny and cute. The computers are really hi tech and I like that they put in all the simple but really funny things that everyone wishes they could have (like a thing that cooks you breakfast...)(Ronny age 10)

I liked this book. It had good characters, a good plot, and tied all books in the My Teacher Is An Alien series together very well. However, some things were exceedingly unrealistic. A good example is the captain of the spaceship. For anyone who doesn't know, this captain is a sort of fish tank like box who can speak and think, and supposedly his species from his planet are advanced enough to join the League of Worlds. This is utterly ridiculous. The only thing that sets us humans apart from is one gesture: thumb to finger. Even if a box had a brilliant idea, he would not be able to carry it out because he would have no way to carry it out. He could not get the supplies, put them together use his invention, because he cannot grip. I rest my case.