. . "Middle schools." . . "Middle schools United States Juvenile fiction." . . "United States." . . . . . . . . . . . "Diary of a wimpy kid : collection" . . "Juvenile works" . "Fiction" . . "Diary of a Wimpy Kid Collection" . . "Kinney's popular Web comic, which began in 2004, makes its way to print as a laugh-out-loud \"novel in cartoons,\" adapted from the series. Middle school student Greg Heffley takes readers through an academic year's worth of drama. Greg's mother forces him to keep a diary, and in it he loosely recounts each day's events, interspersed with his comic illustrations. Kinney has a gift for believable preteen dialogue and narration, and the illustrations serve as a hilarious counterpoint to Greg's often deadpan voice." . . .