I Was A Sixth Grade Alien Author:Bruce Coville He came from the stars -- and sixth grade will never be the same! — The aliens have finally made contact! But when the first ambassador from another planet arrives, he insists that his son, Pleskit Meenom, be treated like any other citizen on Earth. — Which is why Pleskit has become the first purple kid in Ms. Weintraub's sixth grade class. — For T... more »im Tompkins, who has been waiting his entire life to meet an alien, this is like a dream come true. But when Pleskit invites Tim back to the embassy and they stumble across a plan to sabotage the alien mission, Tim's dream becomes a life-threatening nightmare.