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Bruce Coville


Born
in Syracuse, New York, The United States
May 16, 1950

Website

Genre
Children's Books, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult

Influences
Mary Poppins, Doctor Dolittle, Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift


15 posts
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Free Story in Honor of Trans Day of Visibility

March 31, 2025:  Today is “Trans Day of Visibility”� To support that, and my trans friends, I am offering this story, which I wrote in 1998 for an anthology edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino called “DIRTY LAUNDRY: Stories about Family Secrets”� It is, to the best of my knowledge, the first Trans-positive story ever published for the YA Market. You can access it at the link below . . .

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Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.99 · 132,108 ratings · 7,157 reviews · 323 distinct works � Similar authors
Into the Land of the Unicor...
4.08 avg rating — 18,924 ratings — published 1994 — 38 editions
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4.26 avg rating — 14,354 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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Song of the Wanderer (The U...
4.13 avg rating — 11,067 ratings — published 1999 — 31 editions
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4.05 avg rating — 8,640 ratings — published 1991 — 45 editions
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Dark Whispers (The Unicorn ...
4.17 avg rating — 3,401 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions
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My Teacher Glows in the Dar...
3.82 avg rating — 3,158 ratings — published 1991 — 32 editions
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The Monster's Ring
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3.78 avg rating — 3,140 ratings — published 1982 — 33 editions
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3.96 avg rating — 2,851 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions
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Jennifer Murdley's Toad
3.89 avg rating — 2,537 ratings — published 1992 — 32 editions
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Series by Bruce Coville

Into the Land of the Unicorns Song of the Wanderer Dark Whispers The Last Hunt The Invasion of Luster THE WOUNDED TREE THE GATHERED GLORY
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The Monster's Ring Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hat... Jennifer Murdley's Toad The Skull of Truth Juliet Dove, Queen of Love
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My Teacher Is an Alien My Teacher Fried My Brains My Teacher Glows in the Dark My Teacher Flunked the Planet
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3.82 avg rating — 16,755 ratings

Aliens Ate My Homework I Left My Sneakers in Dimen... The Search for Snout Aliens Stole My Body
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Quotes by Bruce Coville  (?)
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“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”
― Bruce Coville
tags: censorship, control, dictatorship, information, tyranny
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“The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”
― Bruce Coville
tags: censorship, heroes, librarians, teachers
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“I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers
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