Diary of a Wimpy Kid

***Diary of a Wimpy Kid*** is an ongoing series of books written by Jeff Kinney. There are twenty books in the main series (excluding an unreleased book). The series is about a middle school student named Greg Heffley. The books are written in the style of Greg's diary. They contain many drawings, all with no color.

These books are about Gregory Heffley, who is most commonly known as Greg. He struggles with middle school and family life. Greg has one close friend named Rowley Jefferson. He goes to public school where he has multiple crushes including Holly Hills, known as Piper Elizabeth Mattews in the online version. The series is very successful, leading to many movie adaptations and popularity among children aged eight to twelve.

## Main Characters

- **Greg Heffley** is a middle school student who wants to be popular. He gets upset when things don't usually go his way. He is addicted to video games.
- **Rodrick Heffley** is Greg's older brother. He is a teenager, later on an adult who likes heavy metal music. Rodrick plays the drums in his band, Löded Diper.
- **Manny Heffley** is Greg's younger brother. Greg thinks that his parents like Manny more than him and Rodrick. Manny’s parents spoil (do good things for) him.
- **Frank Heffley** is Greg's father. He thinks Greg is weak. Frank wants Greg to stop playing video games and play sports instead.
- **Susan Heffley** is Greg's mother. She is nice, but does not know very much about things that Greg and Rodrick like. She does not like technology and smartphones.
- **Rowley Jefferson** is Greg's best friend. Greg sees Rowley as immature and childish because he acts younger than he actually is. Rowley has also made journals (he was inspired by his best friend Greg). His journal is about his and Greg's middle school life and their ordinary lives.

## Minor Characters

- **Holly Hills** is a popular girl at Greg's school. Greg has a crush on her in the early books but it seems like she doesn't like him back. She has a larger role in the movies.
- **Chirag Gupta** is a student at Greg's school who Greg was friends with. After Chirag moves away but returns not long after, Greg makes the rest of the school pretend that Chirag is invisible.
- **Fregley** is an annoying character who lives in Greg’s neighborhood. Greg doesn't like Fregley and once crawled through a sewer to avoid passing by his house. Greg has reason to dislike Fregley because he often does strange and disgusting actions. Fregley appears in nine of the books, but lately has not been mentioned.
- **Patty Farrell** is another student at Greg's school. She is disliked by everyone in the class because she is very rude to everyone else. In the movies, she is portrayed as Greg's enemy.
- **Nasty Pants** is a 5-year-old character who does not like guests in his house. He is known to bully Greg and Rowley whenever they walk in his neighborhood. He appears in Cabin Fever and Wrecking Ball.
- **Mackie** is one of Rodrick's friends and is a former member of Löded Diper. He got accepted in a school for robotics and appears in Diper Överlöde.
- **Drew** is one of Rodrick's friends, and is a former member of Löded Diper. Drew has an older brother who  works at the Deli Counter and lets the band play a song over the speakers. The song only played for thirty seconds before the manager turned it and fired Drew’s brother. He appears in Diper Överlöde.
- **Bill Walter** is the main singer of Löded Diper. He is the only member of Rodrick’s band to not be in high school. In high school, Bill was voted to be “Most Likely to become a Rock Star”, and this is why Rodrick invited him to join his band. Bill appears in five of the books, and was a major character in Diper Överlöde.
- **Christopher Brownfield** is one of Greg's friends and is shown to attract lots of mosquitos while hanging out with Greg in the summer. However, Greg does not see him as a close friend because he is "not a school-year friend". Later in "The Ugly Truth", he is on Greg's team for a game and hides behind a soda machine after the teachers told them they would call all of their parents.

## Books

|Number in series|Name|Published|
| --- | --- | --- |
|1|Diary of a Wimpy Kid|April 1, 2007|
|2|Rodrick Rules|February 1, 2008|
|3|The Last Straw|January 1, 2009|
|4|Dog Days|October 12, 2009|
|5|The Ugly Truth|November 9, 2010|
|6|Cabin Fever|November 15, 2011|
|7|The Third Wheel|November 13, 2012|
|8|Hard Luck|November 5, 2013|
|9|The Long Haul|November 4, 2014|
|10|Old School|November 3, 2015|
|11|Double Down|November 1, 2016|
|12|The Getaway|November 7, 2017|
|13|The Meltdown|October 30, 2018|
|14|Wrecking Ball|November 5, 2019|
|15|The Deep End|October 27, 2020|
|16|Big Shot|October 26, 2021|
|17|Diper Överlöde|October 25, 2022|
|18|No Brainer|October 24, 2023|
|19|Hot Mess|October 22, 2024|
|20|Partypooper|October 21, 2025|
A book called _Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal_ was released. It is a book that follows the perspective of Greg's best friend, Rowley. In 2020, another Rowley book called _Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure_ was published. And in 2021, one last Rowley book was published and it was called _Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories_.

## Movies

The series has seven movies, each story is from the book of the same name. 4 live-action movies were released by 20th Century Fox. After Disney acquired Fox, 3 animated movies that are the reboots of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules were released on Disney+, the first on December 3, 2021 and the second on December 2, 2022. A third animated movie based on Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever was released on December 8, 2023.

### Live action movies

- _Diary of a Wimpy Kid_ (2010)
- _Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules_ (2011)
- _Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days_ (2012)
- _Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul_ (2017)

### CGI / Animated Movies

- _Diary of a Wimpy Kid_ (2021)
- _Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules_ (2022)
- _Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever_ (2023)
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid :The Last Straw

## Infobox (book series)

- **name**: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- **number of books**: 20 (one book unreleased)
- **author**: Jeff Kinney
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English
- **genre**: Children's comedy
- **publisher**: Amulet Books / Puffin Books
- **english pub date**: April 1, 2007 - present
- **image**:
- **books**: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (book), Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Diary of a Wimpy Kid :Partypooper