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Captain Underpants · Book 8

Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People

by Dav Pilkey

Published
15 August 2006
Pages
176
ISBN-13
9780439376143
Type
novel

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About this book

Written by Dav Pilkey, Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People appeared in 2006 -- a three-year gap after the Bionic Booger Boy duology -- continuing the series' pattern of absurd villains and George and Harold's Flip-O-Rama comics-within-the-book. It runs 176 pages.

Its place in Captain Underpants

Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People is book 8 in the Captain Underpants series. It follows Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 2: The Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers. It is followed by Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Re-Turn of Tippy Tinkletrousers. See the full Captain Underpants reading order.

Fourth-graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins are the class prankster duo and comic-book creators of their own hero, Captain Underpants -- so when they hypnotize their tyrannical principal, Mr. Krupp, into actually believing he is Captain Underpants, chaos (and a very literal superhero in tighty-whities) is unleashed on their school. Each book pits the accidentally-real Captain Underpants against an increasingly absurd villain -- alien cafeteria ladies, a mutant plant-fertilizer monster, a time-traveling toilet…

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