This book is really good! ( )

Read it and loved it!

funny Greg does unpredictable things that are halarius that you would never expect him to do. ( )

Better then one and two. ( )

This is a really good because the author made the characters feel very realistic. ( )

Greg Heffley's dad threatens to send him to military school, and he promises to better himself, even though dad isn't setting the best example since he can't seem to stick with his own new year's resolutions! (DIET!) Greg is doing just fine with his new years resolution though, and starts helping people by first telling his mother that she should chew more quietly, and then telling a classmate that he smells.
My favorite part of the book is reading about Greg's dad who is absolutely dreading the neighborly get-together where everyone tries to be funny for the camera to get onto 'American's Funniest Videos'. Greg ends up helping his dad out, but in my book, is as wimpy as ever! Maybe one day if he changes his attitude, girls will like him instead of his sincere, but helplessly dorky best friend Rowley.

this book is funny because when he embaresses himself with only his underwear on this book i would recommend to 5th through 7th grade ( )

Graphic Novel: story about the troubles that happen in middle school and how a boy and his friends face these problems

Reviewed by Meg Smith in School Library Journal (April 1, 2009). Found in Follett Titlewave.

J Fic ( )

The book is about a boy named Greg Heffley never getting what he wants. One day his Dad threatened to send him to Military Academy...
Reviewed by Ryan, 4th grade.

This book seems to be a collection of various thoughts from a kids perspective. Perhaps the writer has ADD! I just couldnt find the string of story line to unite the pages. Its easy to see why kids love this book! Its well illustrated, its funny, and definitely kid friendly. My CAUTION would be to parents who are sensitive to near-cuss words, as there are several throughout the book, and also as the kids journals through his thoughts, the written word is off the cuff and undirected by the corrective nature of parents, its straight from the kids brain to the written word and illustration. I would not use this book for grades >4 because of the mature themes and language. I would use this book for grades 5+ to gateway into reading for pleasure, cartooning, illustration. I am not sure I would actually introduce this book in a school setting since it does discuss very real and sometimes sensitive content. ( )

Once again I grabbed this book as soon as I could prise it from my daughter's fingers and read it quickly before she took it to school the next day to loan it to friends.

This is a wonderful series. Greg is a self centred ordinary but somewhat wimpy 12 year old boy. The things he gets up to are so wonderfully underdescribed as he writes his diary, and so hilariously set off by his illustrations, that I was literally laughing out loud at points in this book.

This book is the third in the series. If you have not read the first two you should really start from the beginning as there are occasional references to earlier incidents that will make more sense that way. If you have read those and got this far, then you probably love these books as much as me (and half the kids in my daughter's class!)

Excellent books for children and adults alike, and a very quick and easy read so a good one for less confident readers too. ( )

Third book in the hilarious Wimpy Kid series.

Greg is back and he's decided that it's pointless to make New Year's resolutions because he's already as close to perfect as a boy can get. Instead, he sets out to help his family be better people--they could all use a bit of self-improvement, especially his big brother, Rodrick. That doesn't go over so well, nor do his attempts to be more manly (joining the boy scouts and the soccer team). In the end, though, Greg does manage to save the day (sort of, by accident).

Prepare to laugh out loud. ( )

This book is funny and thrilling. The characters funny. ( )

Greg Heffley is back, and in danger of being shipped off to military school by his father who is sick of his 'wimpy' ways.

One thing I didn't understand about this one was why Greg's dad would want to send Greg off to military school rather than his juvenile delinquent brother, Roderick. Greg is mostly harmless, frankly.

There were some really cute illustrations in this one; the one of Greg standing over the heat duct in his mom's robe really made me chuckle!

As with the other Wimpy Kid books, I get frustrated by Greg and his self-centeredness and laziness! That's because I'm an adult and obviously not the target audience for this book, ha ha! ( )

Greg just can't catch a break. As a skinny unpopular 7th grader, he's picked on by older kids and ignored by girls, especially Holly Hills. His best friend is more of a loser than he is, as he is the only 12 year old in the neighborhood who still has a babysitter. He is constantly tormented by both his younger brother, who has ratted him out since he was born, and his older brother, who plays tricks on him at every opportunity. Worst of all, his father is eager to enlist him in a military academy, to make a man out of him.

Jeff Kinney perfectly captures the horrors of the pre-teen years in this first of a series of cartoon novels. Although written for older kids, adults will find plenty to laugh -- and cringe -- at in this book. ( )

Love it. The best in the series. Cant wait for the 4th ( )

Greg is back writing another year in his life. This year he is interested in a girl named Holly, who doesn't even know he is alive. He also is in charge of doing his own laundry. Do you know how disastrous it can be for a preteen to be in charge of laundry? No, well read this book and you will soon find out.

I am a big fan of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series for the simple fact that these book have turned children in my life into readers. My cousin, 9 years old, has been moping around the house this summer with nothing to do. "I'm so bored!" he tells my mother. I gave him the first two Wimpy Kid books and he is hooked. He has read and reread them telling all the jokes and funny antics to his little brother and sisters. Today, he waited impatiently for me to come over and give him his fix, the THIRD Wimpy Kid book. He has gotten the Do It Yourself book and has started his own journal. I love it!

Who would like this book? I believe anyone who is or was a child would like this book. Anyone with a reluctant reader in their life should try this book. ( )

The third volume in Jeff Kinneys hilarious series

My 3rd grade students love the Diary of a Whimpy Kid Series. ( )

Belongs to Reed ( )

These graphic novels by Kinney are so much fun to read. They’re quick and easy, but help to remind us all about the perils of middle school and growing up. They put “picture books” in an entirely different kind of category, walking the line between the often dark and ornate worlds of the comic books or graphic novels, and the simplistic messages conveyed by illustrated books for children. It feels very much like you’re reading the journal/diary of a tween.-Lindsey Miller, Lindsey's Library ( )

Read my review here: http://betweentheshelves.com/2009/05/...

Excellent book!

Happy Reading!
xoxo
~e ( )

The day to day life of Greg Heffley, a middle school student, as he wrote it out in a diary format. Starting January talking about resolutions, Greg details some of the events of the first half of his year. Everything from the snack bin at home to school events. Greg thinks he is a pretty good kid, his brother (Rodrick) is annoying and his other brother (Manny) is spoiled. When things start to go terribly wrong and his Dad (Frank) decides to send him to Military school, Greg knows he is in need of some kind of strategy, but what can Greg do to change his Dads mind?

I tried to like this one, I usually enjoy the juvenile fiction section at the library, but this one ….. I didn’t like much. I didn’t find it all that funny but maybe they would. For a juvenile book, just getting kids to read may be a good goal and if this one does that, great. As a juvenile book, I would hope that it could teach (even if they don’t realize it) ethical and / or moral lessons (coming from a moms point of view here), this one doesn’t. If anything, it just gives more ideas to young kids about how to treat one another poorly and possibly cause more problems. I was a little disappointed because of how much I had heard about these books. Not sure what age group it was written for, but it was an easy book to read and the pictures that were on almost every page made the diary entries more interesting and easy to follow. If this book was written for anyone, it would probably be for young boys, maybe 9-12. Again, if it gets kids to read (and I have heard that it does) I guess I shouldn’t be over critical, it just wasn’t something I enjoyed. ( )