Bruce Coville

Jonathan is attracted to the ornate mirror from the first moment he sees it in the antique shop where he works after school. But there is something wrong with the mirror, something evil....

The story begins when Susan Simmons returns to school from spring vacation. Susan has been looking forward to the big class play her teacher has been planning....

One stormy night sixth-grader Jacob Doolittle finds a baby in a basket on his front porch. To Jake’s surprise, his mother decides to care for the baby, hoping its mother will return....

For sixth-grader Nina Tanleven, trying out for a part in a play is pretty scary. But nothing can compare to seeing a ghost, a woman in white, sitting in the audience! Nina senses that she has nothing to fear from this apparition, but she is intrigued....

Nina ("Nine") Tanleven and her best buddy Chris Gurley are having a hard time. The play that led to them meeting a ghost and unraveling a mystery has ended. Now the rest of the summer looms ahead, looking dull after their great adventure. Luckily, Nine's dad gets a job designing the restoration...

The wind has stopped, just stopped, all across the world. As panic begins to build one boy, storm-born Hurricane Smith, is especially affected. After all, the wind has always been his friend, always had his back....

The aliens have made contact! But because they consider Earth a small, backwater planet, they send only one ambassador. The ambassador brings along his son, Pleskit, and (for political reasons) insists the boy should attend a regular school....

It's not easy being the only kid in your class who doesn't have six arms and an extra eye in the middle of your forehead. But that's the situation Jacob faces when his dad takes him to the planet Kwarkis....

"There is a disease that can twist men’s hearts and make them mad, and the name of that disease is jealousy." So begins this engaging retelling of one of William Shakespeare’s last plays—a fascinating and unique combination of intensity and whimsy. When King Leontes unfairly accuses his...

Told by Thialfi the goatboy, and featuring Norse gods, foolish giants, and a pair of cranky goats, this one will have the whole family laughing out loud....

Some kids bring home puppies or kittens. Edward has brought home a monster named Oggledy Nork....

The Return of a Beloved Ghost-Mystery Series! When Nina (“Nine”) Tanleven earns a spot in a new musical to be mounted in Syracuse's beautiful-but-spooky Grand Theater, she expects that she will be in for a lot of fun and a lot of hard work. What she does not expect is that she will find a...

"A page turner that will keep mystery buffs reading to the frightening climax and satisfactory conclusion."—School Library Journal Why does the ghost of a little girl haunt a bedroom in the old Watson House? When Nina ("Nine") Tanleven gets a part-time job at Norma Bliss's antique shop, she...

With the help of fantastic creatures, Cara embarks on a journey across Luster to deliver a message from her grandmother to the queen of the unicorns....

As if she didn't have trouble enough after her classmates discovered she had worn her brother's underwear to school, Jennifer Murdley has just stumbled into Mr. Elives' Magic Shop....

Benjie Perkins' parents make their living by buying old houses and fixing them up to sell, so Benjie is used to odd noises in the night....

In the center of Luster towers an enormous tree that is the Heart of the World. Now the tree is wounded, pierced by a tunnel that connects it to Earth....

A sixth grade student is convinced that an odd substitute teacher is from another planet....

Luster, the world where the unicorns fled to escape the Hunters who have sworn to wipe them out...

The first of Bruce Coville's acclaimed "Oddlies". This collection of stories is performed by some of Full Cast's favorite narrators (including Bruce himself). Some are funny, some are scary, some are both. The topics range from unicorns to werewolves, vampires to angels to brownies....