Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney

This book is a work of fiction and comedy. It’s about two best friends, Greg Hefley and Rowley Jefferson, who are starting middle school somewhere in the USA.  This particular book is the latest in a series of Wimpy Kid novels, seeing the two friends and their life at school.  They set many, humorous, non-academic goals for themselves to achieve, such as to be popular and get to a seat in the lunch hall.

I really enjoyed this current book as we see the challenges that can be faced by a close friendship. Rowley starts to break away from their friendship by introducing a GIRL, and this it where their normal relationship begins to go awfully wrong. Greg responds to Rowley’s move by finding himself a new best friend, Fregly! Fregly isn’t exactly what you would call normal, poor Greg! Greg also seems to be slipping in his school work too, bad grades, late homework and being caught cheating on tests with a fortune telling ball isn’t helping the situation. In fact, Greg hasn’t done his science homework and has to go to visit Erick Glick, “he’s the one who can hook you up with some old assignments”.

I love this book because the author uses situations that might be happening in real school life, allowing many who read it relate to it closely. It’s also funny and interesting. I really love the way Jeff Kinney has written these novels because when it’s read, it seems like it’s been written and read by a kid, this shows how informally written it is.

Olivia, Year 9