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Bruce Coville was born in Syracuse, New York, on May 16, 1950. He spent one year at Duke University in North Carolina. Coville started working seriously at becoming a writer when he was seventeen. He was not able to start selling stories right away, so he had many other jobs, including toymaker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, Coville became an elementary teacher, and worked with second and fourth graders. Coville married Katherine Dietz an artist, and they began trying to create books together. It wasn't until 1977 that they finally sold their first book, The Foolish Giant. They joined together on two other books after that, Sarah's Unicorn and The Monster's Ring, and followed them with Goblins in the Castle, Aliens Ate My Homework, and The World's Worst Fairy Godmother. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher… (more)
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Bruce Coville wrote a couple of books in the Planet Builders series, under the pseudonym Robyn Tallis (which was used by other authors in the rest of the series).

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher 1,699 copies, 18 reviews
Into the Land of the Unicorns 1,648 copies, 24 reviews
My Teacher Is an Alien 1,589 copies, 22 reviews
Song of the Wanderer 980 copies, 6 reviews
The Monster's Ring 828 copies, 12 reviews
My Teacher Flunked the Planet 772 copies, 7 reviews
Jennifer Murdley's Toad 754 copies, 14 reviews
My Teacher Glows in the Dark 749 copies, 5 reviews
My Teacher Fried My Brains 729 copies, 8 reviews
Aliens Ate My Homework 693 copies, 12 reviews
Armageddon Summer 664 copies, 25 reviews
A Glory of Unicorns (Editor, Contributor) 569 copies, 4 reviews
The Skull of Truth 518 copies, 15 reviews
Juliet Dove, Queen of Love 465 copies, 9 reviews
I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X 443 copies, 5 reviews
Goblins in the Castle 437 copies, 6 reviews
The Dragon of Doom 380 copies, 5 reviews
Enter the Whisperer 313 copies, 7 reviews
The Dragonslayers 296 copies, 5 reviews
The Monsters of Morley Manor 292 copies, 9 reviews
Half-human (Editor, Contributor) 247 copies, 5 reviews
Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters: Tales to Give You the Creeps (Editor, Contributor) 240 copies, 3 reviews
The Ghost in the Third Row 238 copies, 3 reviews
The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore (Editor, Contributor) 238 copies, 2 reviews
The Search for Snout 235 copies, 3 reviews
The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed 220 copies, 4 reviews
The Ghost Wore Gray 204 copies, 4 reviews
Secret of the Delvers 202 copies, 8 reviews
Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares: Tales to Make You Scream (Editor, Contributor) 194 copies, 1 review
The Weeping Werewolf 189 copies, 3 reviews
I Was A Sixth Grade Alien 188 copies, 4 reviews
Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind (Editor, Contributor) 188 copies, 4 reviews
Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts: Tales to Haunt You (Editor, Contributor) 177 copies, 3 reviews
William Shakespeare's Macbeth 175 copies, 8 reviews
The Evil Elves 159 copies, 2 reviews
Sarah's Unicorn 155 copies, 9 reviews
Oddly Enough 154 copies, 4 reviews
Aliens Stole My Body 151 copies, 1 review
Space Brat 125 copies, 1 review
William Shakespeare's Hamlet 113 copies, 6 reviews
Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers: Tales to Make You Shiver (Author/Compiler/Editor) 112 copies, 1 review
Fortune's Journey 105 copies, 2 reviews
Odder Than Ever 103 copies, 1 review
Always October 101 copies, 1 review
Operation Sherlock 89 copies, 2 reviews
Robot Trouble 84 copies
The Prince of Butterflies 77 copies, 14 reviews
The Mischief Monster 75 copies, 4 reviews
Oddest of All 55 copies, 3 reviews
Planet of the Dips 53 copies, 1 review
Space Station Ice-3 46 copies, 2 reviews
Amulet of Doom 45 copies
My Grandfather's House 43 copies, 1 review
Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts II: More Tales to Haunt You (Editor, Contributor) 42 copies, 1 review
I Lost My Grandfather's Brain 38 copies, 1 review
Hatched 36 copies, 1 review
Peanut Butter Lover Boy 34 copies, 1 review
Zombies of the Science Fair 33 copies, 1 review
Waiting Spirits 31 copies
Trolled 30 copies, 3 reviews
Too Many Aliens 26 copies
Don't Fry My Veeblax! 26 copies, 2 reviews
The Thief of Worlds 25 copies, 1 review
Is Your Teacher an Alien? 18 copies, 1 review
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters (Editor, Contributor) 16 copies, 1 review
Murder in Orbit 13 copies
Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (Editor, Contributor) 12 copies
Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds (Editor, Contributor) 12 copies
Lapsnatcher 9 copies, 1 review
Cursed 7 copies
Bruce Coville's UFOs (Editor, Contributor) 7 copies
Old Glory 4 copies
Science Project of Doom 3 copies, 1 review
The Box 2 copies
Pharoah's Daughter 1 copy, 1 review
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Introduction, some editions) 17,412 copies, 238 reviews
Dealing with Dragons (Actor, some editions) 5,589 copies, 143 reviews
Wild Magic (Director & producer, some editions) 5,470 copies, 76 reviews
The Goose Girl (Books of Bayern) (Director, producer, & cast member, some editions) 4,166 copies, 178 reviews
Briar's Book (Director/Producer, some editions) 2,843 copies, 33 reviews
Street Magic (Narrator & Producer, some editions) 2,616 copies, 25 reviews
The Book of a Thousand Days (Producer, some editions) 2,506 copies, 149 reviews
Enna Burning (Producer & cast member, some editions) 1,809 copies, 52 reviews
Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence (Contributor) 791 copies, 18 reviews
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold (Contributor) 286 copies, 9 reviews
A Wizard's Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic (Contributor) 158 copies, 1 review
Visions of Fantasy: Tales from the Masters (Contributor) 96 copies, 2 reviews
The Dark of the Woods (Contributor) 85 copies, 1 review
Magic Mirrors (Introduction) 51 copies, 1 review
A Nightmare's Dozen: Stories from the Dark (Contributor) 49 copies, 2 reviews
The Unicorn Anthology (Contributor) 43 copies, 4 reviews
Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night (Contributor) 35 copies, 1 review
An Anthology of Angels (Contributor) 9 copies
MidAmeriCon II Souvenir Book (Contributor) 1 copy
Locus, July 2011 (606) (Contributor) 1 copy
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Bruce Coville wrote a couple of books in the Planet Builders series, under the pseudonym Robyn Tallis (which was used by other authors in the rest of the series).

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