November 1, 2012  Geeks, Girls and Secret Identities  by Mike
Jung ages: 9+ First sentence: "There are four Captain Stupendous
fan clubs in Cooperplate City, but ours is the only one that
doesn't suck." Support your local independent bookstore: buy it
there!  I would have had to read this one anyway, being
nominated for the Cybils in my category and all, but Betsy gave
me the little nudge I needed to bump it up to the top of my
"need to read" pile by posting this last Sunday:  How can you
NOT want to read a book after that??  Vincent and his friends
George and Max are the three members of the "Captain Stupendous
Fan Club." Not the Official one. Or the girly one. Or the rich
old lady one. What they lack in size (all three of the other
ones being much bigger), they make up for in knowledge: they
have made it their life's work (all 13 years of it, anyway) to
know everything about Captain Stupendous.  Who is Captain
Stupendous, you ask?  He is the Superhero who protects
Copperplate City from all manner of nefario