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Captain Underpants

January 20, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Middle Grade Monday – On the Importance of Captain Underpants

Look, I understand. We all have to do things we don’t like. We all have series of books we’d rather not acknowledge, or with which we have serious issues (mumble, mumble, wimpy kid, mumble.) But the payoff for including these books in your collection can be immense. I think we all can recognize that the […]

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