Bruce Coville bibliography

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This Bruce Coville bibliography covers the over 100 books written by young adult fiction author Bruce Coville.

Contents

Series

The Magic Shop

My Teacher Is an Alien

I Was a Sixth Grade Alien

The Unicorn Chronicles

Moongobble and Me

Space Brat

Rod Albright Alien Adventures

Bruce Coville's Book of...

Shakespeare retellings

Nina Tanleven

The A. I. Gang

Camp Haunted Hills

Bruce Coville's Chamber of Horrors

The Enchanted Files

Anthologies

Young adult novels

Middle grade novels

Picture books

Nonfiction

Contribution to the Dungeon series, organized by Philip José Farmer

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References

  1. Bruce Coville Papers Archived March 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved 2014-03-01.
  2. Sally Lodge (2012-05-24). "Paula's Danziger's Best Friends Revive Amber Brown Series". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2012-08-14.
  3. Goodreads Amber Brown Is on the Move listing Retrieved on May 12, 2015
  4. IndieBound Amber Brown Horses Around listing Retrieved on May 12, 2015.