My Teacher Glows In The Dark (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (My Teacher (PB)) [Library Binding]

Bruce Coville (Author), John Pierard (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2005 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: My Teacher (PB)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After discovering that his teacher is an alien, Peter Thompson follows him onto his spaceship and heads for a wild journey.

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About the Author

Bruce Coville is the author of nearly ninety books for young readers, including the international best-seller My Teacher Is an Alien. He has been a teacher, a toy maker, a cookware salesman, and a grave digger. In addition to his work as an author, Bruce is much in demand as a speaker and as a storyteller. He is also the founder and president of Full Cast Audio, a company dedicated to producing unabridged recordings of children's books in a full-cast format. For more information about Bruce, check out www.brucecoville.com. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Library Binding: 137 pages
• Publisher: Turtleback (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1417743182
• ISBN-13: 978-1417743186
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,801,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coville takes the My Teacher series to a whole new level, December 11, 2003

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Teacher Glows in the Dark (My Teacher is an Alien, Bk. 3) (Paperback)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Teacher Glows In The Dark, March 2, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: My Teacher Glows in the Dark (My Teacher is an Alien, Bk. 3) (Paperback)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Space Tale, March 29, 2010

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Darien Summers "Author of The Mischievous Har... (San Francisco, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Teacher Glows In The Dark (A Minstrel Book) (Mass Market Paperback)

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