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Captain Underpants Read-Alikes

j Cle Clements, Andrew Jake Drake – Class Clown

Miss Bruce is the new student teacher in Jake’s second-grade class, and she never smiles. Never. But when Jake cracks up the class during a spelling bee, Miss Bruce comes close. Suddenly, Jake has a new mission in life: to be so funny that even Miss Bruce will laugh!

j Cul Cullen, Lynn Stink Bomb

Taking care of two orphaned baby squirrels helps Kenny forget how bad he feels about blaming a shy sixth-grade classmate for his own "stink bomb," but his mother refuses to allow him or his brothers to bring home any more animals.

j Cut Cutler, Jane No Dogs Allowed

Five-year-old Edward and his older brother Jason find themselves in such wild predicaments as surviving a motorcycle convention and confronting the three-headed mysteries of their own backyard.

j Dan Danziger, Paula Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon

The year she is in the third grade is a sad time for Amber because her best friend Justin is getting ready to move to a distant state.

j Dav David, Lawrence The Cupcaked Crusader

When his little sister's magic cookies transform him into a flying, fire-breathing superhero, ten-year-old Horace Splattly has adventures which include confronting the monster at the school playground.

j Doy Doyle, Roddy The Giggler Treatment

A talking dog, the Mack children and the small elf-like Gigglers themselves must try to stop the prank that the Gigglers have mistakenly set in motion to punish Mr. Mack for being mean to his children.

j Eri Erickson, John R. The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog

It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. Guts, glory, danger, and sacrifice are all in a day’s work for Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security.

j Gan Gantos, Jack Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue

When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor.

j Gau Gauthier, Gail My Life Among the Aliens

Have you ever suspected that the kids down the street could be aliens?

j Gre Greenburg, Dan Maximum Boy: The Hijacking of Manhattan

Max was just a regular kid until the day he touched those radioactive rocks. Now he can do things like fly, and lift two-ton elephants! But can Max save Manhattan from two dirty, rotten villains?

j Hal Hale, Bruce Farewell, My Lunchbag

When fourth-grade private eye Chet Gecko is called to catch someone who is stealing food from the school cafeteria, he finds himself framed for the crime.

j Ham Hamilton, Richard Violet and the Mean and Rotten Pirates

A group of unusual pirates, whose captain cannot stand the sight of blood, finds a baby girl stranded aboard an empty ship and decides to raise her.

j Jen Jennings, Paul Sucked in…the Story of an Appendix on the Loose

Trevor knew that the man in the green coat was going to stick a knife into him. He was going to cut open Trevor’s belly and take out his appendix. And he did… but, the appendix broke loose and really crazy things started to happen!

j McM McMullan, Kate Have a Hot Time, Hades

This book puts a modern spin on the Greek myth of Zeus single-handedly overthrowing Cronus, the leader of the Titans.

j Pec Peck, Robert N. Soup

When it came to the two of us in trouble, Soup was a regular genius… Soup was my best pal. His real and righteous name was Luther Wesley Vinson, but nobody called him Luther. I called him Luther just once, which prompted Soup to break me of a very bad habit before it really got formed. As soon as the swelling went out of my lip, I called him Soup instead of Thoop.

j Pin Pinkwater, Daniel M. The Magic Pretzel

Fourth-grader Norman Gnormal, who behaves a lot like a dog, finds his first real friends when the principal signs him up for the Werewolf Club at school.

j Pla Platt, Richard Pirate Diary: the Journal of Jake Carpenter

The fictional diary of a ten-year-old boy who, in 1716 sets off from North Carolina to become a sailor, but ends up a pirate instead.

j Pul Pullman, Philip I Was a Rat!

Roger crept through the dark streets until he came to a grating in the gutter, like a proper rathole, only human-sized. If he went down there, he wouldn’t have to bother anyone and he wouldn’t do anything wrong. So he lifted the grating and slipped down into the dark.

j Roc Rockwell, Thomas How to Eat Fried Worms

Because of a bet, Billy is in the uncomfortable position of having to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days.

j Sci Scieszka, Jon Knights of the Kitchen Table

When Joe, Fred and Sam are sent back in time by a magic book, they find themselves face-to-face with giants, dragons, wizards and the Knights of the Round Table.

j Scr Scrimger, Richard The Way to Schenectady

Jane Peeler is about to embark on a summer ritual: the family car trip. Even with her irritable, chain-smoking grandmother coming along, Jane is excited to be on her way.

j Sim Simon, Francesca Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter

Horrid Henry encounters the babysitter from hell, traumatizes his parents in a car journey, goes trick-or-treating at Halloween and invades Moody Margaret’s Secret Club.

j Ste Stefanec-Ogren, Cathy The Adventures of Archie Featherspoon

A young boy with a knack for creating unusual inventions when he should be helping his mother on the farm finds a use for them when he is made sheriff of a town in Kansas and must get rid of a gang of no-good bullies.

j Sti Stilton, Geronimo The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid

Geronimo Stilton earns his bread and cheese as editor of The Rodent’s Gazette, but his true joy is writing adventure yarns. As a globe-trotting newsmouse, he finds plenty of material for his tales – although his exploits never quite work out the way he anticipates.

j Tay Taylor, Theodore The Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor

In 1935, living in a lighthouse near San Francisco, a lonely nine-year-old boy summons a magician who teaches him the secret of flying.

j Wee Weeks, Sarah Regular Guy

Guy Strang is convinced that the man and woman with whom he lived all his life cannot possibly be what they claim to be – his parents! Would anyone else’s father perform the famous oyster trick (sucking an oyster up his nose and spitting it out his mouth) in a restaurant?! Ugh!!

j Why Whybrow, Ian Little Wolf’s Book of Badness

Little Wolf has been behaving too courteously, so his parents send him to his uncle's Big Bad Wolf school to learn to be a proper wolf.

j Wie Wiebe, Trina Max the Magnificent

More than anything in the world Max wants to be a millionaire, but so far all his get-rich-quick schemes have been spectacular failures. Now he’s came up with the perfect plan.

j Win Winkler, Henry Niagara Falls, or Does It?

The mostly true confessions of the world’s best underachiever, Hank Zipzer. He’s smart, creative, and always getting himself into trouble!

j Woj Wojciechowski, Susan Don’t Call Me Beanhead!

What’s special about Beany is that she is a worrywart. She worries so much about an ant’s crawling into a pencil sharpener that she fails her science quiz… then she worries how she’ll get the quiz signed by her parents.