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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


Bruce Coville was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1950. His family lived in farm territory, about twenty miles north of Syracuse. Bruce grew up around the corner from his grandparents' dairy farm, where he spent a great deal of time as a child, dodging cows and chores to the best of his ability. As a young reader he loved Mary Poppins and Dr. Dolittle, and still has fond memories of rising ahead of the rest of his family so he could huddle in a chair and read THE VOYAGES OF DR. DOLITTLE. He also read lots of things that people consider junk (Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and zillions of comic books). His only real regret is the time he spent watching television, when he could have been reading instead. (A mind is a terrible thing to ...more

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Into the Land of the Unicor...
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My Teacher Glows in the Dar...
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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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Aliens Ate My Homework I Left My Sneakers in Dimen... The Search for Snout Aliens Stole My Body
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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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