GENRE 6 - DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

Kinney, Jeff. 2007. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: GREG HEFFLEY’S JOURNAL. Amulet Books: New York.

CHARACTERS
The main character in the story is Greg Heffley. The supporting characters are his best friend, Rowley, his brother, Rodrick, and his parents and little brother, Manny. Greg is an easy character for student’s to relate to in trying to grow up and express one’s ideas. Greg deals with situations of a tricky older brother and a little brother who always seems to be in the way. Greg kind of has an off again on again relationship with his friend, Rowley.

PLOT
Greg is your typical middle school student dealing with changes in his life due to family, school and friends. Greg has notions about how things should work in his life and most of the time they do not pan out. He thinks his ideas are the best and is dumbfounded when they do not work as planned. Greg is basically trying to survive middle school and grow up at the same time.

SETTING
The story takes place in today’s time and various from school, home and friend’s houses. Rowley’s house is interesting because of the rules of his parents and Greg tries to sneak around them constantly.

STYLE
The book seems to target middle school readers. They will relate well to Greg’s journey through the Diary. The story is written in such a way that one would really believe that someone may try some of Greg’s schemes. I think that older students or adults would not enjoy the book as much as the target audience.

AWARDS & RECOGINITIONS
Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Books of 2007
Borders Original Voices Winner
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Positive Reviews
Publisher’s Weekly
VOYA