By Dav Pilkey
Publish yr note: First released in 2012
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Tra-la-laaa! Captain Underpants is again in an all-new epic experience that's the zaniest, funniest, outrageousest, and time-travelingiest yet!
When we final observed our heroes, George and Harold, they have been below arrest and headed for criminal. Then Harold foolishly uttered the fateful phrases "What will be worse than going to penitentiary for the remainder of our lives?" and altered the process human history.
In this 9th epic novel, Dav Pilkey takes readers again in time to the carefree days of kindergarten, while the worst factor George and Harold needed to face was once no longer evil mad scientists or alien cafeteria girls yet a sixth-grade bully named Kipper Krupp, the nephew in their clueless institution central. and since George and Harold don't really invent Captain Underpants until eventually fourth grade, the 2 shrewdpermanent kindergartners are all alone -- utilizing their brains to overcome the bully.
Hold directly to your UNDERPANTS -- the Captain is again!
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