Title: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
Author: Jeff Kinney
Illustrator: Jeff Kinney
Publisher: Amulet Books
Year Published: 2007
Format: Hardcover/ Paperback/ Audio CD
Genre: Toy Books
Reading Level: Self-Reader
Reading Interest Level: Middle School
Topics: Puberty, Teenage Years, Middle School
Summary: When Greg’s mother gives him a journal, NOT a diary, to keep his daily happenings at this new stage in his life, Gregg isn’t sure that boy’s should be doing that. Throughout his middle school experience, Gregg records the daily teenage happenings, losing a best friend to popularity and the various hardships teens face today. Through his hilarious journal entries, readers are brought into the life of Gregg as he sees it. Since the book is written though a series of cartoons, it really draws the young readers into the book and allows them to enjoy a new type of book.
Extension Activity: Since this book deals with journal entries; the extension activity would be for the kids to keep a daily journal for one week; entries would include the little, funny things that happened to them daily along with anything else they feel like recording throughout the day.
