I'll see your "Bunnicula", and raise you "My Teacher Is An Alien" by Bruce Coville.

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Rampant_Durandal@reddit

This book series was one of my favorites as a kid.

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Kuro_Neko00@reddit

Loved this. I think it was the first time I ever saw an example of the nerd as the hero. Being a nerd myself it really stuck with me. I seem to recall the third book was my favorite.

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Ok-Sea3170@reddit

I loved that series so much when I was a kid!!

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Muderous_Teapot548@reddit

Ooohhhh I had the omnibus! I read it cover to cover on a flight from Dallas Love field to Chicago (meaning I had a bunch of creative flight changes to get there.)

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URTHELIGHTANDGLORY@reddit

Dannnnnngg you went in the back of the closet for that one really though

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jackfaire@reddit

I desperately wanted to be Peter and was so pisssed at his fate in the fourth book.

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JediXwing@reddit

Wrote him a letter as a kid and he wrote me back. So awesome. Thanks Bruce!

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primabelladonna35@reddit

My 4th grade teacher read us this book and I got My Teacher Fried My Brains and the one after it (that I can't remember the title)

Such good books. And who didn't want a Poot??

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TBIRallySport@reddit

Bruce Coville was my favorite author when I was in elementary school! Especially the “Aliens Ate My Homework” series!

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The first book I ever picked out for myself to read was Bruce Coville's "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher." It was a wonderful beginning to a lifelong love of reading with a strong preference for fantasy!

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AFetaWorseThanDeath@reddit

Loved this series as a kid. Formative stuff. I loved the huge alien from the last book that took up most of a house. It was cool as hell

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SanPadrigo@reddit

I was hooked at the end of this one- I wanted to know if Peter would come back from space.

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Press_French_2@reddit

I met Bruce Coville at a bookstore as a kid! He was an amazing storyteller and so kind to the young fans. Left with a signed copy of one his novels. Huge moment for me

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freeisreal1@reddit

Damn I’m smelling books after seeing this pic.

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MartialBob@reddit

I did my book report on the sequel to this book "My Teacher Fired My Brains" in 3rd grade. I turned one of my mother's salad bowls into the device.

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Acceptable-Double-98@reddit

Stop! You are bringing back so many good memories

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mybadalternate@reddit

Aliens sole weakness is the piccolo, if I remember right.

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Dr-McLuvin@reddit

That picture is terrifying

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Accomplished-End-609@reddit

Yes! I loved this book!

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ShriekingMarxist@reddit

The paintings/illustrations on these covers were always so great. Any idea who did them?

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Channel_8_News@reddit

This was my favorite series as a child. It really got me into science fiction. All four books were amazing.

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automirage04@reddit

This whole series was incredible

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Northshorefisher@reddit

I'll see your My Teacher is an Alien and raise you Maniac McGee

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omega_manhatten@reddit

Honestly, when they made the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movie I was convinced we'd get this series adapted into a movie or at least a series for a streaming service. Feels like there's a lot of 90s kids books you could probably make at this point.

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Interesting-Goose82@reddit

....is cloudy with a chance of meatballs an old story? i assumed it was a new concept when the kids movie came out in 2008?

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omega_manhatten@reddit

Sure was, the book came out in 1978 and I remember reading it a lot as a kid. When they announced the movie and that they weren't following the original style of the book, I wasn't super interested at that point, haha.

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was a children's book that wasn't very long. I read it in 1st or 2nd grade. The movie is nothing like the book though, except there is food falling from the sky. lol

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Interesting-Goose82@reddit

Wow, i totally missed that one

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

Yeah!! This was the first series that really got me interested in reading. I read the first two books when I was in 1st grade and got the next two as they came out.

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PopeBasilisk@reddit

I don't remember anything about this book except that I liked it

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loztriforce@reddit

I’m pretty sure this book earned me a personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut

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CommunicationKey3018@reddit

Keep the classics coming

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jtho78@reddit

I confused this as a book version of Invaders from Mars. My little brain understood they were different titles but was still confused by the similarities.

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RudeAmount9607@reddit

Core memory unlocked

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WalterWriter@reddit

Is there a sequel where the kids wind up going into space to defend Earth with the teacher's people?

If so I started late on this series.

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bort_license_plates@reddit

Yup, there are 4 books in the series.

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omega_manhatten@reddit

My Teacher Flunked the Planet, that's the last book in the series. Don't worry, that was the first one I read as well.

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bort_license_plates@reddit

Loved this series. Had the exact same cover as the pic!

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Ordinary_Aioli_7602@reddit

Loved both Bunnicula and the My Teacher series

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JackRabbit0084@reddit

Yesssssss! Loved these books! The first part of the second book lives rent free in my head- when he chooses what furniture he wants in his quarters in the ship.

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Training-Republic301@reddit

How to eat fried worms was a good one too

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cortesoft@reddit

I love this series. I read it to my daughter last year, she really enjoyed it.

Although some of the alien technology isn’t as impressive anymore now that we have iPads

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ARealForHonorDev@reddit

In 4th grade we had to do a book "project" (not necessarily a report). There were a bunch of options. For mine, I made a flip type animation of the teacher pulling his mask off revealing the green head, just like this cover.

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WholesaleBees@reddit

I loved this whole series!

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Ploosse@reddit

Wow thanks for unlocking a memory. I LOVED these books.

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shadowlarx@reddit

Loved this series. There’s a line from the third book that always stuck with me.

“As technology advances, so does the technology to fool it.”

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LilMoWithTheGimpyLeg@reddit

Not gonna lie: this cover kinda freaked me out back when it was released. I saw it at the school book fair, which was at night for some bizarre reason.

As you can tell, people (usually my uncle) would often say I was "scared of my own shadow". Another quote I haven't heard in years.

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