A.I. Gang Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Operation Sherlock |
1986 |
Buy |
| Robot Trouble |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Cutlass Clue |
1986 |
Buy |
| Forever Begins Tomorrow |
1986 |
Buy |
Alien Adventures Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Aliens Ate My Homework |
1993 |
Buy |
| I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Search for Snout |
1995 |
Buy |
| Aliens Stole My Body |
1998 |
Buy |
Amber Brown Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon |
1993 |
Buy |
| Amber Brown Is Not A Crayon |
1994 |
N/A |
| You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown |
1994 |
Buy |
| Amber Brown Goes Fourth |
1995 |
Buy |
| Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit |
1996 |
Buy |
| Forever Amber Brown |
1996 |
Buy |
| Amber Brown Sees Red |
1997 |
Buy |
| Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue |
1998 |
Buy |
| Rien ne va plus pour Lili Graffiti |
1998 |
N/A |
| I, Amber Brown |
1999 |
Buy |
| Amber Brown Is Green With Envy |
2003 |
Buy |
| Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink |
2012 |
Buy |
| Amber Brown Is on the Move |
2013 |
Buy |
| Amber Brown Horses Around |
2014 |
Buy |
Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Dragons & Dreams |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Unicorn Treasury |
1988 |
Buy |
| A Wizard’s Dozen |
1993 |
Buy |
| Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters: Tales to Give You the Creeps |
1993 |
Buy |
| Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence |
1994 |
Buy |
| Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets |
1998 |
Buy |
| Ribbiting Tales |
2000 |
Buy |
| Bruce Coville’s Ufos |
2000 |
Buy |
| Half-Human |
2001 |
Buy |
| Unexpected |
2005 |
Buy |
| Twice Told |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Letter Q |
2012 |
Buy |
Avon Camelot Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Lottie & Lisa |
1952 |
Buy |
| Summerdog Comes Home |
1980 |
Buy |
| A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher |
1981 |
Buy |
| Baseball Fever |
1981 |
Buy |
| The Trouble with Tuck |
1981 |
Buy |
| Irma and Jerry |
1982 |
Buy |
| Basic Fun |
1982 |
Buy |
| Esp McGee |
1983 |
Buy |
| Tunnel to Yesterday |
1983 |
Buy |
| Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You |
1983 |
Buy |
| Rich Mitch |
1983 |
Buy |
| Summerdog |
1983 |
Buy |
| Bet You Can’t! |
1983 |
Buy |
| The Earth is Flat–And Other Great Mistakes |
1983 |
Buy |
| Behind the Attic Wall |
1983 |
Buy |
| Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater |
1984 |
Buy |
| Gremlins |
1984 |
Buy |
| Maura’s Angel |
1984 |
Buy |
| The Jellyfish Season |
1985 |
Buy |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 |
1985 |
Buy |
| Get Rich Mitch! |
1985 |
Buy |
| Mystery of the Melted Diamonds |
1986 |
Buy |
| Ukrainian Egg Mystery |
1986 |
Buy |
| Moroccan Mystery |
1986 |
Buy |
| Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol |
1986 |
Buy |
| Flash Fry, Private Eye |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Anti-Peggy Plot |
1986 |
Buy |
| Best Joke Book for Kids 2 |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Codebreaker Kids |
1987 |
Buy |
| Summer Camp Creeps |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Case of the Lost Look-Alike |
1988 |
Buy |
| Breezy |
1988 |
Buy |
| Racing the Sun |
1988 |
Buy |
| Anne Frank |
1989 |
Buy |
| The Case of the Vanishing Villain |
1990 |
Buy |
| Something Upstairs |
1990 |
Buy |
| Ghost Brother |
1990 |
Buy |
| A Haunting in Williamsburg |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Best Ever Kids’ Book of Lists |
1991 |
Buy |
| Ask Me Anything About the Presidents |
1992 |
Buy |
| The Adventures of King Midas |
1992 |
Buy |
| Tons of Trash |
1992 |
Buy |
| Maria, a Christmas Story |
1992 |
Buy |
| How to Travel Through Time |
1993 |
Buy |
| Lucie Babbidge’s House |
1993 |
Buy |
| Beardance |
1993 |
Buy |
| Christmas Countdown |
1993 |
Buy |
| Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Mummy’s Curse |
1994 |
Buy |
| Lemonade Days |
1994 |
Buy |
| Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble |
1994 |
Buy |
| Main Street |
1994 |
Buy |
| Comet Luck |
1994 |
Buy |
| Home Front Hero |
1994 |
Buy |
| Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found |
1995 |
Buy |
| Kwanzaa |
1995 |
Buy |
| Goodbye, Desert Rose |
1995 |
Buy |
| Vampire Mom |
1995 |
Buy |
| My Own Two Feet |
1995 |
Buy |
| Spookhouse |
1995 |
Buy |
| Harry the Poisonous Centipede |
1996 |
Buy |
| Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller |
1996 |
Buy |
| Four Perfect Pebbles |
1996 |
Buy |
| Zombie Queen |
1996 |
Buy |
| Freak Show |
1996 |
Buy |
| Going to Net |
1996 |
Buy |
| Tracks in the Snow |
1997 |
Buy |
| Danger Along the Ohio |
1997 |
Buy |
| Lasting Echoes |
1997 |
Buy |
| Night of the Chupacabras |
1998 |
Buy |
| As Ever, Gordy |
1998 |
Buy |
| No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War |
1998 |
Buy |
| Becoming Felix |
1998 |
Buy |
| Breakaway |
1998 |
Buy |
| Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me |
1998 |
Buy |
| It’s In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz |
1998 |
Buy |
| Leaving Summer |
1998 |
Buy |
| Flea Circus Summer |
1998 |
Buy |
| Calling Me Home |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Pizza That Time Forgot |
1999 |
Buy |
| Love Me, Love My Broccoli |
1999 |
Buy |
| Get on the Net |
1999 |
Buy |
| Don’t Try This at Home! |
1999 |
Buy |
| Bruce Coville’s Shapeshifters |
1999 |
Buy |
| A Kids’ Guide to America’s Bill of Rights |
1999 |
Buy |
| Bruce Coville’s Alien Visitors |
1999 |
Buy |
| Green Mango Magic |
1999 |
Buy |
| All the Answers |
2000 |
Buy |
| Can of Worms |
2000 |
Buy |
| Orphan Journey Home |
2000 |
Buy |
| Bearstone |
2000 |
Buy |
| Alice-by-Accident |
2000 |
Buy |
| Death at Devil’s Bridge |
2000 |
Buy |
| Alice By Accident |
2003 |
Buy |
Bruce Coville’s Book Of… Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters: Tales to Give You the Creeps |
1993 |
Buy |
| Bruce Coville’s Book of Nightmares |
1995 |
Buy |
| Bruce Coville’s Book of Spine Tinglers |
1996 |
Buy |
| Bruce Coville’s Book of Nightmares: Tales to Make You Scream |
1995 |
N/A |
| Bruce Coville’s Book of Magic: Tales to Cast a Spell on You |
1996 |
N/A |
| Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters II: More Tales to Give You the Creeps |
1996 |
N/A |
| Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens II: More Tales to Warp Your Mind |
1996 |
N/A |
| Bruce Coville’s Book of Nightmares 2: More Tales to Make You Scream |
1995 |
N/A |
Camp Haunted Hills Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| How I Survived My Summer Vacation |
1988 |
Buy |
| Some of My Best Friends Are Monsters |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Dinosaur That Followed Me Home |
1990 |
Buy |
Chamber of Horrors Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Amulet of Doom |
1985 |
Buy |
| Le repaire des monstres |
1983 |
N/A |
| Spirits and Spells |
1985 |
Buy |
I Was a 6th Grade Alien Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| I Was A Sixth Grade Alien |
1999 |
Buy |
| The Attack of the Two-Inch Teacher |
1999 |
Buy |
| I Lost My Grandfather’s Brain |
1999 |
Buy |
| Peanut Butter Lover Boy |
2000 |
Buy |
| Don’t Fry My Veeblax! |
2000 |
Buy |
| There’s an Alien in My Underwear |
2001 |
Buy |
| The Revolt Of The Miniature Mutants |
2000 |
N/A |
| Farewell to Earth |
2001 |
N/A |
Magic Shop Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Monster’s Ring |
2008 |
N/A |
| Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher |
1991 |
Buy |
| Goblins in the Castle |
1992 |
Buy |
| Jennifer Murdley’s Toad |
1992 |
Buy |
| The Monster’s Ring/Russell Troy, Monster Boy |
1992 |
Buy |
| The Skull of Truth |
1997 |
Buy |
| Juliet Dove, Queen of Love |
2003 |
Buy |
| Charlie Eggleston’s Talking Skull |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Vampire’s Tooth |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Mask of Eamonn Tiyado |
2011 |
Buy |
| Goblins on the Prowl |
2015 |
Buy |
Moongobble and Me Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Dragon of Doom |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Weeping Werewolf |
2004 |
Buy |
| The Evil Elves |
2004 |
Buy |
| The Mischief Monster |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Naughty Nork |
2008 |
Buy |
My Alien Classmate Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Thereas an Alien in My Classroom |
1999 |
Buy |
| Alien Kiss Chase |
1999 |
Buy |
| The Science Project Of Doom! |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Alien Who Came to Dinner |
2000 |
Buy |
My Teacher Is an Alien Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| My Teacher is an Alien |
1989 |
Buy |
| My Teacher Fried My Brains |
1991 |
Buy |
| My Teacher Glows in the Dark |
1991 |
Buy |
| My Teacher Flunked the Planet |
1992 |
Buy |
Nina Tanleven Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Ghost in the Third Row |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Ghost Wore Gray |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Ghost Let Go |
2011 |
Buy |
Odd Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Oddly Enough |
1994 |
Buy |
| Odder Than Ever |
1999 |
Buy |
| Odds Are Good |
2006 |
Buy |
| Oddest of All |
2008 |
Buy |
| A Blaze of Glory |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Box |
2011 |
Buy |
| Clean As a Whistle |
2011 |
Buy |
| Homeward Bound |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Language of Blood |
2011 |
Buy |
| Old Glory |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Passing of the Pack |
2011 |
Buy |
| With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm |
2011 |
Buy |
Philip Jose Farmer’s The Dungeon Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Philip José Farmer’s The Dungeon |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Black Tower |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Dark Abyss |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Lake of Fire |
1989 |
Buy |
| The Valley of Thunder |
1989 |
Buy |
| The Final Battle |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Hidden City |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Dungeon |
2003 |
Buy |
| Philip José Farmer’s The Dungeon Vol. 6, The Final Battle |
2017 |
Buy |
Picture Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Prince of Butterflies |
2002 |
Buy |
| Hamlet |
2004 |
Buy |
| Hans Brinker |
2007 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| My Little Brother is a Monster |
2011 |
Buy |
| I, Earthling |
2011 |
Buy |
| Herbert Hutchison in the Underworld |
2011 |
Buy |
| In Our Own Hands |
2011 |
Buy |
| A Life in Miniature |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Giant’s Tooth |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Stinky Princess |
2011 |
Buy |
| After the Third Kiss |
2012 |
Buy |
| Biscuits of Glory |
2012 |
Buy |
| What’s the Worst That Could Happen? |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Thing in Auntie Alma’s Pond |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Japanese Mirror |
2019 |
Buy |
Sixth-Grade Alien Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Zombies of the Science Fair |
2000 |
Buy |
| Too Many Aliens |
2000 |
Buy |
| Snatched from Earth! |
2000 |
Buy |
| Sixth-Grade Alien |
2020 |
Buy |
| I Shrank My Teacher |
2020 |
Buy |
| There’s An Alien In My Backpack |
2000 |
Buy |
| Lunch Swap Disaster |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Revolt Of The Miniature Mutants |
2000 |
Buy |
| Missing—One Brain! |
2020 |
Buy |
| Class Pet Catastrophe |
2021 |
Buy |
| Farewell to Earth |
2001 |
Buy |
| Aliens, Underwear, and Monsters |
2022 |
Buy |
Space Brat Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Space Brat |
1992 |
Buy |
| Blork’s Evil Twin |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Wrath of Squat |
1994 |
Buy |
| Planet of the Dips |
1995 |
Buy |
| The Saber Toothed Poodnoobie |
1997 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Foolish Giant |
1978 |
Buy |
| Sarah’s Unicorn |
1979 |
Buy |
| Sarah and the Dragon |
1984 |
Buy |
| Monster of the Year |
1989 |
Buy |
| Prehistoric People |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Dragonslayers |
1994 |
Buy |
| Fortune’s Journey |
1995 |
Buy |
| My Grandfather’s House |
1996 |
Buy |
| Aliens Stole My Dad |
1996 |
Buy |
| The World’s Worst Fairy Godmother |
1996 |
Buy |
| Lapsnatcher |
1997 |
Buy |
| Armageddon Summer |
1998 |
Buy |
| Creature of Fire |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Ghost Saw Red |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Monsters of Morley Manor |
2001 |
Buy |
| Thor’s Wedding Day |
2005 |
Buy |
| Always October |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Thief of Worlds |
2021 |
Buy |
The Enchanted Files Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Diary of a Mad Brownie |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Enchanted Files: Cursed |
2015 |
N/A |
| Hatched |
2016 |
Buy |
| Cursed |
2016 |
Buy |
| Trolled |
2017 |
Buy |
The Unicorn Chronicles Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Boy with Silver Eyes |
2011 |
Buy |
| Into the Land of the Unicorns |
1994 |
Buy |
| A Glory of Unicorns |
1998 |
Buy |
| Song of the Wanderer |
1999 |
Buy |
| Dark Whispers |
2008 |
Buy |
| The Guardian of Memory: A Tale From the Unicorn Chronicles |
2012 |
N/A |
| The Last Hunt |
2010 |
Buy |
| After the Third Kiss |
2012 |
N/A |
| The Invasion of Luster |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Guardian of Memory |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Gathered Glory |
2022 |
Buy |
William Shakespeare’s Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Tempest |
1994 |
Buy |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
1996 |
Buy |
| Romeo and Juliet |
1999 |
Buy |
| Twelfth Night |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Winter’s Tale |
2007 |
Buy |
Bruce Coville has an enormous catalog of 270 books across 24 series, with a career spanning decades. He writes primarily for young readers and covers fantasy, science fiction, horror, and humor. His alien-themed series alone include My Teacher Is an Alien, Alien Adventures (Aliens Ate My Homework), the Sixth-Grade Alien books, I Was a 6th Grade Alien, and the A.I. Gang, giving him one of the deepest collections of kid-friendly sci-fi around.
On the fantasy side, Coville wrote the Magic Shop series (The Monster’s Ring, Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher, and several more), The Unicorn Chronicles, and the Moongobble and Me books. He also adapted several Shakespeare plays for younger audiences, including The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. His anthology work is extensive too, with edited collections like Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters and Bruce Coville’s Book of Nightmares.
The Avon Camelot section of his page shows the sheer breadth of his earlier work, with dozens of titles from the 1980s and 1990s covering everything from ghost stories to joke books to biographies. He has the Camp Haunted Hills series, the Space Brat series, the Nina Tanleven ghost mysteries, the Odd collections, and The Enchanted Files, among others. Coville also contributed to Philip Jose Farmer’s The Dungeon series. His output has continued into the 2020s, with new Sixth-Grade Alien and Unicorn Chronicles entries arriving as recently as 2022.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Bruce Coville written?
Bruce Coville has written 270 books across 24 series.
What was Bruce Coville's first book?
Bruce Coville’s first book is Lottie & Lisa, published in 1952.
What genres does Bruce Coville write in?
Bruce Coville writes fantasy, horror, novellas, science fiction, and short stories. Their best-known work includes the A.I. Gang series.