β Scribed by Bruce Coville
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Fellow sixth graders, an alien and a human, become unlikely friends in this hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible first book in the sci-fi series Sixth-Grade Alien from the bestselling author ofAliens Ate My Homework, Bruce Coville.
Sixth grade can be tough. But starting sixth grade as the only alien on the planet seems impossible.
When Pleskit Meenom, the son of the first alien ambassador to earth, finds out heβs going to public school, heβs less than thrilled.Especiallyafter what happened on their last planet.
Tim Tompkins, on the other hand, couldnβt be more excited to meet a real alienβeven if some of his classmates are warier of the first purple kid in their class. Tim is determined to befriend Pleskit and secretly hopes he may have finally found someone who feels as out of place as he does.
But when angry mobs, cultural differences, and intergalactic plots get in the way, their friendshipβand maybe even the planetβcould be in danger.
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