The book I read is Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. It’s the first book of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. It takes place in some town in the United States during the present day. It’s about a boy named Greg Heffley who hates middle school. Some of the main characters are Rowley, Rodrick, Manny, Greg’s mom, and his dad. Greg writes his important things in his life in a diary, which he calls a journal, because he thinks that diaries are for girls. Some of the important things are what he thinks about other people and some personal things. Greg is trying to get more popular by making funny comics for the school paper but the teacher in charge of the paper always changes the comics and makes them bad. Every time Greg tries to do something to make himself popular, it fails.

Greg is curious, clever, and he does a lot of things to get into trouble. I know he is curious because he wants to know about what his friend is talking about and about other people’s lives. The way he is clever is he creates comics. One of the ways Greg gets himself into trouble is during a school play he does not do what he is supposed to and he throws an apple at someone. He throw the apple when he was singing a song in the play. He did not sing because his brother is recording him. Advensholey the other people singing the song stopped singing too. Like 10 minutes later someone Greg did not like popped out from the curtains and Greg found an opportunity to throw an apple at her, so he did.

Some of my favorite parts of the book involve both Rowley and Greg getting in trouble with other people or with their friendship. My first event is what happens on Halloween. Greg and Rowley are trick-or-treating late and high schoolers come over to them on a truck and spray them with a hose. When they are leaving, Greg yells, “I am calling the cops,” and regrets it two seconds after. Greg and Rowley have to hide in Greg’s grandma’s house for most of the night. They get away but they run into the high schoolers again. Another favorite part of mine is when Greg and Rowley get into a small fight because Greg says a lie and gets Rowley in trouble. Rowley finds a new friend and they have a sleepover. After Greg finds out, he gets jealous and goes over to a kid across the street from Rowley to show him he has other friends too. The kid’s name is Fregley. Fregley has no friends so he does not have the best experience with other people and does some nasty things to Greg. Greg reacts to them by jumping out the bathroom window and running back to his house.

I enjoyed this book and encourage you to read it. This book is funny and I learned not to lie in certain situations like when it has to do with friendships and really important things. This book relates to Diary of an 8-bit Warrior. They are both written in the first person and the main characters are a lot alike and they both have the same problems. I would rate this book 4 stars.

If you like pranks then keep reading; if not, then keep reading anyway– because there is so much more than just pranks in this book! I am reading the The Terrible Two Get Worse, the second book in the series The Terrible Two, by Jory John and Mac Barnett. The book takes place in Yawnee Valley and the year is around 2016. Miles and Niles, the two main characters, are clever pranksters but during school they are the teachers’ pets. Miles and Niles mostly pull pranks on Principal Barkin, a blowhard who bosses people around a lot.

Miles, one of my favorite main characters, is sneaky, smart, and clever. He is sneaky when he and Niles creep into their school about fourteen hours early to pull a prank. The reason why I think he is smart, is when they are doing a quick prank he thinks of one fast. Finally, why I think he is clever is he and Niles can do pranks and nobody ever knows it’s them. They are the best students and fool everyone at the meetings where they try to figure out who did the pranks.

One of the most important parts of the book is when Niles and Miles do a prank and it gets Principal Barkin fired and Barkin’s father, who used to be the Principal, replaces him. That is important because the bossy Principal Barkin is really easy to prank. At first, Miles and Niles were a little happy about Principal Barkin leaving, but when they realize Principal Barkin’s dad turns the school into a boot camp, they try to get Principal Barkin back. The reason why they don’t want Barkin’s dad to be Principal is because he is harder to prank then they thought and they want to bring the fun back to their classmates.
I liked this book because it has what I like in a book–it’s funny, at times it’s suspenseful, and there are pranks! I also enjoyed this book because there is always something going on that keeps you entertained. I recommend this book to anyone who likes fun books. It’s also the perfect  book for a reader who wants interesting characters. I think this book is similar to The Twits by Roald Dahl because they both have a lot of pranking in it. I would rate this book four stars.