Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, by Jeff Kinney
Reviewed by Jack W.

In this funny book which reads like an illustrated diary, a boy named Greg bumbles through life, messing up nearly everything and generating a lot of laughs (I think Charlie Brown worked on the same principal). In this book, which has adventure, action, romance and . . . soap carving?, Greg tries to learn to dance, works out a way to get even with his classmates on valentines day, and buries a time capsue. His life is a lot of fun, but when his dad meets a former juvenile delinquent who is now a perfect gentleman, thanks to military school, he tells Greg he is going to send him to Spag Union, which will make a man out of him. Trying to find a way to get out of this horrible fate, Greg joins the boy scouts and tries to convince his dad that he is already manly enough. Will it work?

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