Humor
Diary of a wimpy kid : the long haul
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
Diary of a wimpy kid : hard luck
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
Trying to find a partner for the Valentine's Day dance, Greg finds solace in the fact that his best friend Rowley also doesn't have a date, but an unexpected twist might turn his night around.
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Diary of a wimpy kid : cabin fever
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
"Greg struggles to stay on Santa's 'nice' list while snowed in with the rest of the Heffley family in the days leading up to Christmas"--
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
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Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the last straw
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.
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Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
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Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
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The Watsons go to Birmingham-- 1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
jFICTION Curtis, Christopher Paul
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor, Kids
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
You will laugh out loud again and again until the end, when you'll cry. A family from Michigan goes to visit relatives down South in Birmingham for the summer. Ten year old Kenny, the protagonist, has a wonderful voice and spirit. -Anne W
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