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Middle school student and middle kid Greg Heffley is your typical underperforming, lazy, bad influence kid that the other parents want their kids to stay the fuck away from. So that’s exactly why his diary Greg’s diary, by Jeff Kinney, is popular with children and adults alike. It’s so much fun to read about all the troubles he gets himself into.
Right off the bat he tells you it’s a diary, not a diary. When his mother bought him one, he specifically told her NOT to buy ANYONE that said diary. So this is his diary, and don’t expect him to be writing this or that Dear Diary anytime soon.
He writes: “Thursday. It’s really hard for me to get used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get up every morning to go to school.”
His older brother Rodrick tricked him one day by resetting his alarm clock, putting on his school clothes and waking him up in the middle of the summer night. He told him he had slept all summer and it was time to go to school.
Greg fell for it, trudged downstairs to eat cereal and only realized it was a joke when his father came downstairs to scold him for making such a row. When they went to chew Rodrick, he was lying in bed, snoring. “I’m sure Dad thinks I’ve got a screw loose or something,” Greg writes.
When school starts, Greg is quite disappointed to find that he’s been accepted into the gifted reading group “because it just means a lot of extra work”. He had been trying to get into the Easy group when they did the screening late last year. He pretended he couldn’t read the word “book”. But he believes that his mother is very close with the principal. So she probably stepped in to make sure he was reinstated in the gifted group.
On Halloween, he and his best friend Rowley (an easy-going boy) charge the little kids money to come into their haunted house. It’s really just the two of them screaming under the bed next to the kid. When one of the young children curls up in a ball and refuses to come out, Rowley’s father puts an end to her haunted house plans.
When Greg refuses to acknowledge some of the troubles he’s caused and blames Rowley instead, their friendship is in jeopardy. And along the way, they go on all sorts of adventures trying to make money, avoid work, and have fun.
The whole book is full of stick figure drawings that illustrate what’s going on. Kids and adults alike enjoy the humor and wacky antics. This is perfect for getting reluctant readers to actually read something for a change. Greg’s diary, by Jeff Kinney is the first in a hugely successful children’s graphic novel series, and it looks like Greg won’t be stopping anytime soon.
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