History Series / IWasASixthGradeAlien

* ExcitedShowTitle: Almost every episode has an exclamation point at the end of their titles.

* BookEnds: Most, if not quite all, of the books start and end with a letter from Pleskit to his best Hevi-Hevian friend Maktel Geebrit. The first one plays with this in that it's the ''second'' and last chapters that feature Pleskit's letters.
* BrainInAJar: Pleskit's "Grandfatherly One" died a long time ago, but his brain is preserved in a liquid-filled tank and can communicate with the outside world. Pleskit usually goes to consult with him when he has a problem - this advisory role is the whole reason he's kept around.
* TheBully: Jordan Lynch, who's been harassing Tim since he moved to Tim's town two years before the start of the series.
* ConLang: Pleskit's people have their own language. Coville includes translations for all its words used in the series so far at the end of each book.
* {{Gasshole}}: Pleskit's people tend to use gaseous emissions with specific odors, usually to signify certain feelings.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Pleskit and other aliens tend to occasionally pepper their speech with words from their own language, when they don't have or aren't sure of the English translation.

* ThePrankster: Beebo Frimbat, an imp from another planet who's featured in books 9 and 11.
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: Protagonist Tim Tompkins mentions in the first book that he's been waiting for aliens to contact Earth since the first time he saw ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'', and that he's seen it 47 times by that point.
* SerialNovel: ''Disaster on Gleembol Seven'', set pre-series. Each segment is included as a bonus feature in books 1-6, and it explains what happened to Pleskit on the planet he lived on before Earth, told through his letters to his best Hevi-Hevian friend Maktel Geebrit.
* ShrinkRay: The Molecule Compactor, a Hevi-Hevian device that squeezes out the empty space in the atoms that make up a person or thing, greatly reducing their size (humans, for instance, are reduced to a mere two inches). It wears off on its own after a few hours.
* SleepLearning: The Hevi-Hevians use this to learn new languages, and unlike most examples, it actually works. Before going to sleep, they take a special pill that places the brain in the same chemical state as it is at the time of the "language explosion", as they call it (meaning the state it was in when they were children and able to learn languages more effectively), then put on a helmet which plays the language into their brain as they sleep. About ten nights of this is enough to give them a basic command of the language.
* SquareCubeLaw: In book 2, Tim and his teacher have been shrunk to about two inches tall. However, as Pleskit had earlier explained, those affected retain their original weight. As Tim and Ms. Weintraub discover, this means that when Tim briefly jumps straight up and comes crashing back down, he breaks through the bottom of the drawer and out of the desk.
* StayWithTheAliens: In book 8, Linnsy Vanderhof chooses not to return to Earth after undergoing MentalFusion with Bur, an alien symbiont, deciding instead to travel the galaxy. This has consequences in later books, as some people are suspicious about why she didn't come back.
* SwitchingPOV: Chapters in each book alternate between Tim and Pleskit's point of view.
* UnfortunateNames: Pleskit's new protocol officer Kathryn Buttsman, whom Tim nicknames "The Butt".

# ''There's an Alien in My Underwear'' (2001)

The books were reissued beginning in 2020, with new covers and new titles for many of them.

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# ''I Was a Sixth Grade Alien'' (1999)
# ''The Attack of the Two-Inch Teacher'' (1999)
# ''I Lost My Grandfather's Brain'' (1999)
# ''Peanut Butter Lover Boy'' (2000)

# ''Don't Fry My Veeblax!'' (2000)

* OnlySoManyCanadianActors: Ryan Cooley and Daniel Clarke played the main characters in the tv show before going on to ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' at the same time.

''I Was a Sixth Grade Alien'' (''My Best Friend Is An Alien'' in some countries) is a middle-grade science fiction series by Creator/BruceCoville, in which Earth has been contacted by the Interplanetary Trading Federation, which is establishing a single embassy on Earth in Syracuse, New York. Its ambassador, Meenom Ventrah of the planet Hevi-Hevi, is bringing his son Pleskit Meenom with him, and insists the boy be treated like a normal Earth kid. That means enrolling him in the local elementary school as a sixth grade student, and after some initial difficulties, Pleskit gains a new best friend: resident alien aficionado Tim Tompkins, with whom he gets into all kinds of wild adventures.

''I Was a Sixth Grade Alien'' (''My Best Friend Is An Alien'' in some countries) is a middle-grade science fiction series by Creator/BruceCoville, in which Earth has made contact with another world and its ambassador insists that his son, Pleskit Meenom, be treated like a normal Earth kid. That means enrolling him in sixth grade, where he and his new best friend Tim Tompkins get into all kinds of wild adventures.

* SerialNovel: ''Disaster on Gleembol Seven'', set pre-series, each installment was included as a bonus feature in books 1-6. It explains what happened to Pleskit on the planet he lived on before Earth, told through his letters to his friend Maktel Geebrit.

* SquareCubeLaw: In one book the characters are shrunk to about seven inches and quickly discover that this has not affected their strength or mass; after trying to get off a desk they attempt jumping down onto a open drawer and snap right through it.

''I Was a Sixth Grade Alien'' is a live action comedy series (a Canadian and UK co-production) detailing the adventures of Pleskit, a blue-skinned alien trying to fit in and make it through sixth grade. It lasted for two seasons.

It's based on the Creator/BruceCoville series of the same name.

Some countries know it better under the name ''My Best Friend Is An Alien''.

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* AffectionateParody: Everything involving Tarbox Moon Warriors.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming