This book series is about a young boy who keeps a journal/diary about what happens in his life and his friends and family.  This book series is a fun book series for students. I feel like this is a great series for students who are not a fan of reading full text yet, because it is set up like a diary and there are lots of pictures and graphics included.

4 Stars

Lexile: 950L

Not for me, but I can see the appeal for kids. Realistic-ish situations in the life of an average kid. Very easy to read. Lots of pictures and mischief.

My name is Galoopdaloop, and I'm here to blog about books. I want to talk about my favorite books, but let me start off by saying that reading wasn't my thing.

I remember when I was in preschool, reading pop up books. Nevermind that; I opened up the book and ripped the pop ups out, but I left the words in the book in. Sadly, I didn't read the words in the book, but those pop ups were so amazing, I ripped them right out of the book. I was a pretty weird kid.

Then, I went into fifth grade, and I had to read 25 books. "HOLY COW 25 BOOKS" I screamed in my head. Pretty strange how I was able to scream in my head, but not a story. It gets worse. Once I got into Sixth grade, I had to do ANOTHER 25 BOOKS! I felt like I read every book in the world after that!

But I was wrong. After I read about 3 books, I started a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book. Don't ask me how i didn't read this one yet. I was very interested in the realistic fiction and the style of the book. Sadly, I didn't read the other books in the series until i got to eighth grade. 

What inspired me to read the other books is the high lexile level on those books. I read them, and I understood the book word from word. I thought that I was bad at reading until I came across these books.

I think the reason why I never liked reading is because I was never interested the first second I read it and I doze off. Then I keep reading and I wonder what's even happening, and yet again doze off.

Anyways, I'm glad I read Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It got me into reading.

My favorite genre is suspense. I chose this author because i heard he was a great author from my friends. I have read a Harry Potter book for the recent book project. I chose it because i liked it. I have read that Greg does not like being outside during the summer. He is more of an inside person. He really likes to play video games. Also, his best friend is Rowley. I predict that he will do more active activities outside instead of being inside. I'm connected to this book because he likes to play video games and i do too. Plus i like staying inside like him. The authors style is kind of a childish read. It is still good for older people to read it too. There really isn't a certain passage that stand out to me. 

The latest entry in this long-running kid’s fiction series sees the Heffley family vacationing at a tropical island resort during Christmastime. As is expected from Kinney’s bestselling books, things go horribly — and are narrated by middle son Greg, i.e. the “Wimpy Kid.”

It’s really no secret this series has declined in quality in recent years, but I did enjoy The Getaway. As far as Heffley vacations go, it’s certainly no The Long Haul, but it does yield several laugh out loud moments. This series now seems to be at its best when it sees the family going somewhere. Kinney seems to have exhausted all plot ideas involving these characters hanging out at home.

A perfectly fine addition to the Wimpy Kid series, this doesn’t quite reach the heights of the early entries but it’s an enjoyable ride all the same.