Diary+of+a+Wimpy+Kid+by+Jeff+Kinney+(Harry)

**by Jeff Kinney** **Realistic Fiction**
 * Diary of a Wimpy Kid**
 * Nominated By: Harry Culhane**

===Greg Hefley is a middle school kid who HATES school. He has two brothers, a younger one named Manny and an older one named Rodrick. Manny is a mommy's boy and Rodrick tortures Greg. Greg's best friend, Rowley, plays video games and hangs out with Greg, but he can be annoying. All Greg wants is to make it out of middle school alive. Along the way, he gets frustrated, picked on, scared and mad, but he also has a lot of fun. Greg and Rowley do a lot of stuff together, but the other kids think that they play baby-ish games, so they beat them up. They change the games they play, and act older. This helps a little bit, but they still get beaten up. A girl named Patty Farrell bothers them, too. She is bossy and thinks that she can get everything that she wants. To stay away from trouble, Greg and Rowley play video games at Greg's house (because Rowley's parents don't allow him to play video games). While they play games they come up with ideas for cool projects, like a Haunted House they made during Halloween. After a while no one bothers them anymore and they just have lots of fun.===

===I chose this book because I had heard it was good and my friends were reading it, too. A friend loaned it to me, and I loved the comedy right away! The way Jeff Kinney writes about how Greg and Rowley talk to each other is hilarious. The other reason I chose this book is because Greg acts like a fourth-grade boy, and it's easy to imagine what he's doing and what his life is like. I get tortured by my sister sometimes, and so when I read about Greg's trouble with his brothers, I can relate to it. When he's done with the 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series, I hope Jeff Kinney starts another series because I love his writing.===