I would reccommend this book to my brother Mohamed. They saw Ms.Schwartz frozen in a rectangular see through box.Ģ. When Peter and Susan was in the middle of the attic. He opened it and he started to scream very loud because an alien head poped up and started to talk in a weird language. Duncan went in a room and saw a breif case. When Duncan,Peter and Susan was spying on Mr.Smith. I highly recommend this one.ġ.I love this book. In summary, this is a great book for kids and Goosebumps-loving adults like myself. I did like one aspect of the ending, though, which was actually a little bit dark/sad. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this, except for the ending which felt just a little bit rushed and contrived. I liked how the author implemented some more adult-type jokes in here, yet the book is pretty tame and age-appropriate. The characters are surprisingly well-done. It does feel a little flat at times, as some of the events are briefly summarized/narrated through the first-person POV, and there isn't much suspense to this either, it's mostly just fun with lots of humor.

This little book was well-written, very amusing, and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. The premise is fairly simple - Our protagonist Susan discovers her new substitute teacher is an alien, and must warn her fellow classmates and figure out a way to prevent themselves from being abducted!

I always set my expectations pretty low whenever I'm going into a middle-grade book that's not written by my idol, R.L. I'd recommend this book to any middle grade student who's ever felt like an outcast. the hidden messages deal with fears virtually every middle school student has: sometimes it's hard to broach tough subjects with parents, fear of how peers will react, dealing with schoolyard bullies, etc. Each character has clear, individual motivations. Smith Susan, Peter, Duncan) that keep the story interesting. there are multiple character triangles (Susan, Peter, Broxholm Susan, Ms. most (if not all) of the chapters end on a cliffhanger, making the book hard to put down.

Juhas had recommended the book to me).Īs a writer, one of the things I look for is why I like a book, and this book has many lessons to offer. For the time period, I don't recall that being done often.Īnother reason I believe I forgot about Susan was that I had strongly identified with Peter as a child (and that was probably the reason Mr. In my opinion, her gender wasn't all that important to the story, but it's interesting to note that Coville chose to write from a girl's perspective for a science fiction story. One of the things I'd forgotten was that this book is written from the perspective of a sixth grade girl named Susan. I reread this book dozens of times as a kid, but reread it for the first time in more than a decade over the last couple of nights. This book single-handedly made me fall in love with science fiction when I was in fourth grade (thanks, Mr.

My teacher is an alien by bruce coville