Captain Awesome Takes a Dive

By Stan Kirby and George O'Connor

It’s summertime in Sunnyview and Captain Awesome is headed to the pool in this all-new Captain Awesome adventure!

It’s summertime in Sunnyview and Eugene McGillicudy is off to the pool for swimming lessons. It doesn’t take long for Eugene's superhero alter ego, Captain Awesome, to find a list of reasons why he must defend his swimming class from a cast of comical “bad guys.” MI TEE! While Captain Awesome is busy saving the Sunnyview pool along with Nacho Cheese Man and sidekick Turbo, will he find time to tackle a dive into the deep end before summer ends?
     With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Captain Awesome chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Little Simon
• Release date: Jun 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781442442047

Stan Kirby

Stan Kirby tied a beach towel around his neck and became Super Commander Beach Boy when he was six years old. When Stan’s not creating the awesome adventures of Captain Awesome, he loves reading comic books, eating okra, and hang gliding (but not at the same time).

Book preview

Could time go any s-l-o-w-e-r? When would summer vacation ever get here!?

Eugene McGillicudy sat at his desk in Ms. Beasley’s class. His Super Dude Digital Command Watch counted down the remaining minutes.

What’s that?!

You’ve never heard of Super Dude, the greatest, most powerful superhero on several planets? The superhero who once defeated Mower Mouth, the big, mean-mouth Martian that devoured yards and soccer fields with its Mower Martian Mouth?

Without Super Dude’s comic books, Eugene would never have become Captain Awesome or formed the Sunnyview Superhero Squad with his best friend, Charlie Thomas Jones, also known as . . . Nacho Cheese Man!

Only six more minutes—three hundred sixty seconds!—stood between Eugene and Charlie’s seventy-one super summer days of fighting evil in Sunnyview. Not once would he have to hear things like his teacher saying, Please take your seats.

Eugene had even made a list of his summer plans:

DING-DING-ABING-BING!

THAT WAS THE BELL!

FINALLY! SUMMER! VACATION! HAD! OFFICIALLY! BEGUN!

Eugene rocketed to his cubby. Let’s go, Charlie!

Aside from putting evil on an asteroid prison orbiting the twin moons of See Ya Later, is there anything better than summer vacation? Eugene sure didn’t think so.

Charlie packed up his cheese containers from his cubby and stuffed them in his backpack. Nacho Cheese Man’s Dairy Defense couldn’t be left at school for the entire summer. There’s no telling what bad guys would do if they got their evil hands on the cheesy goodness of Hot Jalapeño Surprise or Titanic Taco Blast.

Plus the expiration dates were in July.

See ya later, My! Me! Mine! Mere-DITH! Eugene said and waved to Meredith Mooney.

Meredith stuck up her nose and stomped out of the class.

Reviews for Captain Awesome Takes a Dive

[elizajane_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This series continues to impress me. A first chapter book aimed at 5-7 year olds it is suitable for that age group and both advanced youngsters and reluctant older readers as the age or grade of the children is hardly, if ever, mentioned. My son has outgrown this series now, but being learning challenged he did read it up to 12yo and enjoyed it. I read this one on my own and like the others found it to be extremely fast paced. Each chapter is exciting, the comedy is humorous, a value is learned (specifically here to face your fears) and as usual George O'Connor is a splendid cartoonist. The books are formulaic and contain the same characters which brings familiarity which is needed at this level of reading. A new character appears for this book. A fun-loving teenage life-saver/swim teacher who says "dude" all the time. Love him! Fun series aimed at boys.