Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space

Pilkey, D. (1999). Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 

A combination of comic strips, illustrated picture book, and novel this book reaches out to those youngsters with adventurous imaginations and a wonderful sense of humor.  This episode of Captain Underpants revolves around the conquest of alien invaders by the school troublemakers.  George and Harold demonstrate their cleverness and trickery early in the novel but by the end, readers may be sucked into liking them and perhaps even adoring them as we see exactly how far they will go to save them world.  This is a great book for the lacksadaisical reader. (Grade 3 and up).