Bruce Coville
Bruce Coville
Bruce Coville, born on September 16, 1950, in Shreveport, Louisiana, is an acclaimed American author known for his imaginative and engaging storytelling. With a career spanning several decades, Coville has made significant contributions to children's and young adult literature, captivating readers with his creative ideas and compelling narratives.
Personal Name: Bruce Coville
Bruce Coville Books
(69 Books)
Sixth grade is just out of this world... Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird. But she doesn't know how weird until she catches him peeling off his face -- and she realizes that "Mr. Smith" is really an alien! At first no one will believe her -- except Peter Thompson, the class brain. When Peter and Susan discover Mr. Smith's horrible plans for their classmates, they know they have to act fast. Only they can get rid of their extra-terrestrial visitor -- and save the rest of the sixth grade class from a fate worse than math tests!
As he stumbles upon Beloved and her Hunters marching through the Axis Mundi into Luster, Prince Lightfoot is attacked, his only escape route through the same magical barrier, but going towards Earth, leaving Cara Diana Hunter to face Graumag, Lady of Dark Mountain, requesting the dragons to unite with the unicorns against Beloved's attack.
A wizard's dozen is a magical number - sometimes twelve, sometimes more - of something fantastic. In the case of this volume, it is a collection of thirteen spellbinding tales that together make a heady brew of wonder and enchantment.
- from inside front cover
Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.
Never before published stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, and others.Whether portrayed as fire-breathing reptilian beasts at war with humanity or as noble creatures capable of speech and mystically bonded to the warriors who ride them, dragons have been found in nearly every culture's mythology. In modern times, they can be found far from their medieval settings in locales as mundane as suburbia or as barren as post-apocalyptic landscapes—and in The Dragon Book, today's greatest fantasists reignite the fire with legendary tales that will consume readers' imaginations.With original stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, Tamora Pierce, Harry Turtledove, Sean Williams, and Tad Williams as well as tales by Naomi Novik, Peter Beagle, Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple, Cecelia Holland, Kage Baker, Samuel Sykes, Diana Wynne Jones, Mary Rosenblum, Tanith Lee, Andy Duncan, and Bruce Coville.
The first day of seventh grade was probably the worst day of Duncan Dougal’s life. He knows that things are really bad when he finds an alien’s hand in a dumpster and then gets plugged into an alien brain fryer!
Can Duncan find out which of the four new teachers in his school is an alien before his brains get fried to a pulp—or before the aliens try to fry the whole planet?
"Coville deftly picks up the first book's plot treads while weaving a new tale from Duncan's point of view. The fast-paced plot and terse, familiar narration will attract readers to Coville's continuing tales."—ALA BOOKLIST
Bruce Coville was born in 1950 in Syracuse, New York. He first decided he might like being a writer when he was in the sixth grade and over the years of his writing career has written dozens of books for young people. He now lives back in his home town with his wife Kathy and their many pets.
While living with aliens Peter has learned of their plans for the Earth and only he, Susan and Duncan can stop them.When Peter Thompson discovers that his newest teacher glows in the dark he's flying away from Earth in a spaceship full of aliens and there's no one he can call.
Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.
A simplified prose retelling of Shakespeare's play about the strange events that take place in a forest inhabited by fairies who magically transform the romantic fate of two young couples.
When aliens come to Earth on an interplanetary trade mission, sixth-grader Tim makes friends with the ambassador's son and together they uncover a plot to sabotage the mission.
Peter Thompson tours the planet with his friends, and three aliens in disguise! The aliens mission? To file the final report that will determine Earth's future in the universe.
Rod is surprised when a miniature spaceship lands in his school science project and reveals five tiny aliens, who ask his help in apprehending an interstellar criminal.
A shy twelve-year-old girl must solve a puzzle involving characters from Greek mythology to free herself from a spell which makes her irresistible to boys.
A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween night, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous monster.
Having jumped into the fantasy land of Luster, Cara joins Lightfoot the unicorn in the search for Queen Arabella Skydancer.
When an ordinary-looking fifth grader purchases a talking toad, she embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures.
The world will end on Thursday, July 27, 2000. At least, that's what Reverend Beelson has told his congregation. Marina's mom believes him. So does Jed's dad. That's why they drag Marina and Jed to join the reverend's flock at a mountain retreat. From the mountaintop they will all watch the Righteous Conflagration that will end this world--and then they will descend and begin the world anew. But this world has only just begun for Jed and Marina, two teenagers with more attitude than faith. Why should the world end now, when they've just fallen in love? Told in alternating chapters from both Jed's and Marina's points of view, this first-ever collaboration between two masters of children's literature is a story about faith and friendship, love and loss . . . and the things that matter most at the End of the World.
The smallest dragonboy / by Anne McCaffrey
A message from charity / by William Lee
The seventh mandarin
by Jane Yolen
The voices of El Dorado / by Howard Goldsmith
The box / by Bruce Coville
The lake / by Ray Bradbury
A dozen of everything / by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Poor little Saturday / by Madeleine L'Engle
The fable of the three princes / by Issac Asimov
Letters from camp / by Al Sarrantonio
Things that go quack in the night / by Lewis and Edith Shiner
Voices in the wind / by Elizabeth S. Helfman.
What moans at midnight in Toad-in-a-Cage Castle?
Toad-in-a-Cage Castle was filled with secrets -- secrets such as the hidden passages that led to every room, the long stairway that wound down to the dungeon, and the weird creature named Igor who lived there. But it was the mysterious night noises that bothered William the most -- the strange moans that drifted through the halls of the castle where he was raised.
He wanted to know what caused them.
Then one night he found out....
Filled with the most popular legends about the mythical unicorn and including original poems and stories, this collection brings together the singular talents of Bruce Coville, Madeleine L'Engle, Jane Yolen, C. S. Lewis, Myra Cohn Livingston, and many others. A perfect companion to Coville's own bestselling Unicorn Chronicles and an ideal gift for the child who has always wondered about these glorious beasts, The Unicorn Treasury is sure to find a large and enduring audience.
Anthony and his younger sister discover that the monster figures he got in an unusual box at an estate sale are alive, but they have no way of knowing that the "monsters" will lead them on fantastical adventures to other worlds in an effort to try to save Earth.
"Maktel Geebrit, Pleskit's pen pal from back home on Hevi-Hevi, is finally going to visit him on Earth. Pleskit is excited, but a little nervous, too. How will Maktel get along with Pleskit's new friend, Tim?"
Thialfi, the Norse thunder god's goat boy, tells how he inadvertently helped the giant Thrym to steal Thor's magic hammer, the lengths to which Thor must go to retrieve it, and his own assistance along the way.
Having jumped into Luster, the land of unicorns, Cara makes a perilous journey to bring back her grandmother, The Wanderer, in order to release the Queen of the unicorns and allow her to die.
A collection of stories about such creatures as mermaids and centaurs, who are part-human and part-animal or part-plant, and their struggles to understand their true identity.
A brave squire, an earnest page, and a strong-willed princess set out, each for individual reasons, to try to slay the dragon created to carry out a witch's revenge.
Although bratty Blork is good at throwing tantrums, even a megatatrum can't save his pet Toonoobie when it is taken by the Big Pest Squad.
Faced with an ancient curse, a tragic demon, and a blood feud thousands of years old, Marilyn must make the right decision—or die.
Award-winning author Bruce Coville believes in unicorns, and his mission is to make believers out of all of us with this collection of stories by distinguished fantasy writers.
The guardian of memory / Bruce Coville
Tearing down the unicorns / Janni Lee Simner
Beyond the fringe / Gregory Maguire
Stealing dreams / Ruth O'Neill
The dream-child / Nancy Varian Berberick
The ugly unicorn / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Story hour / Katherine Coville
The unicorns of Kabustan / Alethea Eason
A song for Croaker Nordge / Nancy Varian Berberick and Greg Labarbera
The healing truth / Kathryn Lay
Child of faerie / Gail Kimberly
The new girl / Sean Stewart
Seeking to unravel the secret of the long enmity between unicorns and delvers, Cara travels through a strange underground world to the court of the centaur king, while on Earth, Beloved and her hunters make final plans to jump to the fantasy land of Luster and drive the unicorns to extinction.
"Gerald the griffin isn't brave enough or fierce enough to fit in with the other griffins of the Enchanted Realm. When he runs away to the human world, he finds himself up to his beak in trouble, friendship, and fun!"--
Stuart sees the ad for a summer movie camp and knows that's the place for him. He doesn't know the man who runs the camp makes the world's scariest movies--and plans to try out his special effects on the campers!
When Edward accompanies Moongobble into the Forest of Night to prove he is a magician of merit by obtaining the tears of a werewolf, he does not know what big surprises are in store for them.
Best friends Jake and "Weird Lily" enter the monster-filled land of Always October, made famous in Jake's grandfather's books, to save a foundling who becomes a monster during the full moon.
Rod and his alien friends stumble into danger as the search for Snout, the Master of the Mental Arts, leads them across the stars to the Mentat, the mysterious home of the Mental Masters.
"Now that Amber's mom and Max are married, the family is moving to a new house, and Amber is worried about more than just packing. How can she leave the only home she's ever known?"--
A collection of chilling tales about vampires, werewolves, demons, and monsters by such authors as Bruce Colville, Michael Markiewicz, Neal Shusterman, and many more.
Rod Allbright's body has been stolen by BKR, the most fiendish villain in the galaxy, which leaves Rod to share the body of a one-eyed blue alien named Seymour.
A Dutch brother and sister work toward two goals, finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.
When Bonnie begins to use the ancient deck of tarot cards she found in her grandmother's attic, she taps into a power unlike anything she has ever imagined.
Life in the village of Pigbone is boring until an aspiring magician and his talking toad come to town and ask Edward to help them slay the Dragon of Doom.
Nina Tanleven, six grader, and her best friend, Chris discover the tower room with its big brass bed and grieving little girl ghost.
"Here are thirteen chilling tales that will keep you wide awake and holding tight to your bed all night long."--Back cover.
Nine-year-old Amber is nervous and excited about her mother's wedding to Max, but Amber's father makes things complicated.
A collection of nine short stories featuring an angel, unicorn, vampire, werewolf, and other unusual creatures.
Rod and his bratty cousin Elspeth are snatched into another dimension by the monstrous alien Smorkus Flinders.
In this collection you will meet a host of ghosts, some frightening, some lonely, and some funny.
Reprint: Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, ©2003
