Bruce Coville

[Dolphinia]

I was wondering if anyone else read Coville's My Sixth Grade Teacher is an Alien series. When I was growing up this was the first non-traditional, as my mother once called them, story I ever read. It was because of these that I started reading all kinds of alien books, got hooked on Star Trek, eh I'm a Trekkie oh well, then discovered elves and on from there.
A lot of people don't realize the connection between Star Trek and elves but you'd have to read the TNG novels. Wes Crusher makes friends with a boy from a race of beings that reminded people of elven kind. So just in case anybody wondered how I made that jump now you know. D.

[Cordilow]

I know there was a book involving an alien teacher. One of my teachers in grade school read part of it to us, and I loved it. The description on this book doesn't seem like what I remember, but it might still be the same book.

Bruce Coville seems to have some interesting books. I started with the intention of reading some of The Magic Shop books a time ago, but that was before I had read much juvenile fiction, and I still felt really weird about checking out books for kids. I think I could do it now without the troubles, if I wanted. I really don't have anything against such books (I actually like them a lot)—it's just that I can be rather self-conscious about people observing me (this is one reason I think e-books will never die, if they ever put the prices lower—you can read them without everyone and their dog knowing).

[Dolphinia]

I've never personally cared what other people thought about what  I was reading. I read everything from books in Latin (very, VERY slowly mind you) to A Day In The Life of Mugsy. Dr. Suess, heck I've even gone so far as to check out a Stephen King and a scooby-doo mystery at the same time.
   I do understand about the stares though, I get a lot of them when I walk around reading Dr. Suess aloud while wearing a big black and white hat with a red bow. The kids love me, the parents, as far as I can tell, are afraid of me. Hehehe Yes it's eccentric but I have friends going to Rocky Horror in full drag, Trekkies who walk around in cadet uniforms just because they can, there's even a few guys I know who dress themselves up as different incarnations of Death for a period of time each day just for fun. At the Ren. Fest we all put on elaborate costumes walking around scraping and bowing, taking pictures, having a riot all the way around.
   So I have to say putting on a funny hat and reading silly stories to kids just to make them laugh is pretty tame in comparison. I wish I were brave enough to do some of the more interesting things my friends do. D.