Here’s our most recent request for help: a reader seeking a short story collection for children themed around aliens.<\/p>\n
Allison writes:<\/p>\n
Hello, this may seem like a strange request. I am trying to locate this book
\nthat I absolutely loved as a kid (possible publication date, between
\n1994-1997ish).<\/p>\nIt was a children’s\/young adult book in the line of “More Scary Stories To
\nTell In The Dark”. I believe I actually got it at an elementary school book
\nfair many many MANY years ago, or possibly from the Scholastic book catalog
\nthat was sent to us in elementary school. It was a collection of short
\nstories about aliens, some funny and some scary. It was a paperback and on
\nthe cover was a picture of a green alien with one eye reaching through a
\ncage. It corresponded to an inside story about these kids from the
\nnot-so-distant-Earth who go to an “alien zoo” to see the alien specimins.
\nThe antagonist kid chucks an ice cream cone at the alien, who eventually
\nescapes and enacts his revenge. Another story was about two kids who
\ndiscover cave art and upon further inspection realize it is depicting the
\ntrue “aliens” on Earth are the human race, who invaded and killed the
\noriginal inhabitants. There were more and I just remember snippets. It was
\nvery “Twilight Zone”…but for kids…I can’t find it anywhere! It was not
\neither of the Bruce Coville collections, and I’m not sure if it was an
\nanthology of authors or just one author.<\/p>\nI figured a website devoted to children’s horror books might be able to
\nassist me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nCan anyone identify Allison’s unidentified favorite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s our most recent request for help: a reader seeking a short story collection for children themed around aliens. Allison writes: Hello, this may seem like a strange request. I am trying to locate this book that I absolutely loved as a kid (possible publication date, between 1994-1997ish). It was a children’s\/young adult book in<\/p>\n