Richard Bickerstaff

Richard Bickerstaff is the protagonist of Stephanie Spinner's Aliens books (only the Breakfast and Lunch volumes were co-written by the late Jonathan Etra, as he didn't live to co-write the Dinner volume). He is a boy with glasses who lives with his mother. He teams up with a freeze-dried alien named Aric, starting from the first book, when he is found in the box for a cereal called Alien Crisp.

In the first book, he reveals to once have apparently chosen a pair of sneakers, only to hate them later.

In the second, he is shown to have a best friend named Henry.