The Plot
Por burlarse del nombre del profesor Pipicaca, Jorge y Beto están a punto de hacer que su nuevo maestro de ciencia enloquecido de rabia se apodere del planeta entero. Pero Capitán Calzoncillos viene al rescate. When Professor Pippy P. Poopypants comes to Jerome Horwitz Elementary School to teach science, and he goes off the deep end because students make fun of his name, only Captain Underpants can save the school from the professor's perilous plot.
Where The Plot keeps showing up
Two of our editors' lists feature this novel.
What you might want to know about The Plot
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
Jacob Finch Bonner is a once-promising novelist teaching at a low-residency MFA program in Vermont when a smug student named Evan Parker tells him a plot too good to be true. Years later, with Evan dead, Jake writes the book himself, and an anonymous email arrives that begins, You are a thief.
The most commonly searched is The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz (2021), a literary thriller about a writer who steals a student's plot idea. The metadata above lists Dav Pilkey in error.
Yes. Hulu released a series adaptation of The Plot, titled The Plot Against America's Heart (2024). Mahershala Ali stars.
The Plot is 152 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Plot takes most readers 2 to 3 hours to finish.
The Plot is a standalone novel by Dav Pilkey, not part of a series.
The Plot is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
