A Minstrel Book -- tpbNew York -- ©1991 -- 137pp
ISBN: 0-671-72709-5
illustrated by John Pierard
After discovering that his teacher is an alien, a young boy begs to be taken aboard an intergalactic space ship, where he becomes Earth's last chance at survival.
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Although I really like Bruce Coville books, I had put off reading this because I thought, from the title, that it was going to be one of his silly books. Instead, it was some pretty serious, youthful, sci-fi, and I enjoyed it much more than I was expecting. The book actually deals with a young boy's perceptions of loneliness, friendship, and girls all within the environment of space, aliens, and the end of the world.
I'm sorry, now, that I didn't read the other two books in the series first.
Recommended.
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