SuitabookMy Teacher Fried My Brains
Bruce Coville
- Reading
- Try the opening together if the school-based suspense sounds appealing, and pause to check how the mix of humour and frightening moments is landing. The book is the series’ second title.
- Themes
- Comic and spooky school adventure: Duncan’s school mystery involves a suspected alien teacher, an alien hand and a brain-frying device. The story is presented as both funny and frightening, placing comic adventure alongside spooky peril.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes children being abducted by aliens and Duncan being plugged into a brain fryer. These perilous science-fiction elements may be worth weighing for a reader who finds threat or bodily danger unsettling.