Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville has written dozens of books for young readers, including My Teacher Is an Alien, Monster of the Year, and the Camp Haunted Hills books, How I Survived My Summer Vacation, Some of My Best Friends Are Monsters and The Dinosaur That Followed Me Home. He grew up in central New York, where he's lived most of his life. Before becoming a full-time writer, Bruce Coville worked as a magazine editor, a teacher, a toymaker and a gravedigger.