Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw – Jeff Kinney

Greg is back in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw.

Poor Greg not only has to share late evening T.V. watching with his mom and younger brother, but he is forced to participate in sports.   (Do you agree with his thoughts on Shel Silverstein?)

And going to a sleepover with his friend Rowley doesn’t give Greg the chance to see the cute girl down the block,  but what can a wimpy kid do?

For information about the author and more information about the series (like book 4 is coming out October 2009), go to the official Diary of a Wimpy Kid website.

I was just digging around on his site and saw that he had originally published the first book online at Funbrain.com and it is still there.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Greg Heffley’s Journal – Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal is a funny quick read.  And it is nominated for the Teens Top Ten list this year.  As the cover says, it is a novel in cartoons.  And, hey, it is not a diary. It is a journal.  I wonder why it says “diary” on the cover.  Hmm.

Greg writes about a bunch of things that happen during a full year at middle school.  I am just going to leave you with two things:  1) stay away from the cheese on the basketball court and 2) keep your eye out for the second book in the series Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.

Stuff: The Life of a Cool Demented Dude – Jeremy Strong

Here is a funny boy coming of age book, interspersed with drawings and a serial comic strip.

Life is rough when your dad’s girlfriend moves into the house with her teenage daughter who happens to be the same age that you are. What is almost worse is the enormous angora rabbit that hates men. Don’t expect to walk through the house unscathed. There is also a bit about how not to prepare a bubble bath. I couldn’t help but laugh at the result.

Here is the book’s summery, “Fourteen-year-old Simon, known as Stuff, struggles with his new stepfamily, tries to avoid a giant attack rabbit, hopes to break up with his girlfriend and connect with a new one, and creates cartoons of “Punykid’s battle with drooling dorkoids.”"