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Hey, cool! Just found Bruce Coville's latest book, Always October!

I remember it, too. There was a short story version of it in Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters* back in the day, and I always wanted to know more about the boy whose little brother turned out to be a monster. Now I've got the chance to find out, and to enjoy a nice old-fashioned Halloween story. I do love me some October.

Also, having an OCD kid as one of the main characters is kind of neat. And while the girl's horror-themed interjections are a little obnoxious, I do like her addition as another narrator. Looks like it'll be a good one to read while I'm hanging out with the neighbor's cat.


*I am sure my mom would love to destroy Bruce for those anthologies he did, since every time I read one I would spend at least one night sleeping on the floor in my parents' room so the monsters would not get me. While I believe the books ultimately contributed a lot to my imagination, I'm pretty sure Mom wishes I'd stuck with the one about the unicorns.

Date: 2012-10-17 01:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diatryma.livejournal.com
I'm working in a 5/6 behavioral classroom. The teacher grabbed My Teacher is an Alien randomly for reading. The kids have now read two in reading, one unrelated (I think) as teacher read-aloud, one's reading Flunked the Planet on his own, another's heading into Glows in the Dark, and every single time we go to the library they are shocked that there are MORE.
I may have to spend some quality time in the kids' section of the library next time I go.

Date: 2012-10-17 06:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com
You know, for all I love Coville, I have never actually read that series. I may have to fix that ...

Date: 2012-10-17 11:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diatryma.livejournal.com
I'm only reading it for the first time now. I missed a lot of series because I couldn't figure out the order.

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