If You Liked Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Try Reading . . .

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Recommended for Wimpy Kids of all ages

Author	Title
Amato, Mary	Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All (+)
Contains three stories in which brothers and best friends Wilbur and Orville Riot catch a thief, overthrow a king, and find a treasure, and includes rules to some of their made-up games.
Amato, Mary	Please Write in this Book
When Ms. Wurtz leaves a blank book in the Writer's Corner with a note encouraging those who find it to "talk to each other" in its pages, the student's entries spark a classroom-wide battle.
Bruel, Nick	Bad Kitty Gets a Bath (+)
Takes a humorous look at the normal way cats bathe, why it is inappropriate for humans to bathe that way, and the challenges of trying to give a cat a real bath with soap and water.
Fine, Anne	Diary of a Killer Cat (+)
Tuffy the cat tries to defend himself against accusations of terrifying other animals.
Holm, Jennifer	Babymouse: Queen of the World (+)
An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for an invitation to the most popular girl's slumber party.
Look, Lenore	Alvin Ho:  Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things (+)
A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.
Moss, Marissa	Max Disaster: Alien Eraser to the Rescue (+)
Welcome to Max's secret collection of random thoughts about school, family breakups, and the power of Alien Eraser. Pimply older brothers. Good parents who get into bad fights. Lucky for Max, he has a place to jot down his mixed-up thoughts and brilliant ideas.
Peirce, Lincoln	Big Nate in a Class by Himself (+)
Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
Trine, Greg	Melvin Beederman Superhero: The Curse of the Bologna Sandwich (+)
After graduating from the superhero academy, Melvin Beederman heads for Los Angeles, where he unexpectedly teams up with Candace Brinkwater, school play actress, to nab the evil McNasty Brothers.
Whybrow, Ian	Little Wolf’s Book of Badness (+)
Little Wolf has been behaving too courteously, so his parents send him to his uncle's Big Bad Wolf school to learn to be a proper wolf.
Wight, Eric	Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom (+)
Fourth-grader Frankie Piccolini has a vivid imagination when it comes to cleaning his disastrously messy room, but eventually even he decides that it is just too dirty.

Recommended for Wimpy Kids in Grades 4 and up

Author	Title
Angleberger, Tom	The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future.
Barshaw, Ruth	Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel (+)
Eleven-year-old Ellie McDoodle illustrates her sketchbook with chronicles of her adventures and mishaps while camping with her cousins, aunt, and uncle.
Benton, Jim	Dear Dumb Diary: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (+)
In her diary, middle school student Jamie Kelly describes her life at home and at school, including her attempts to triumph over her nemesis, the beautiful and popular Angeline.
Holm, Jennifer	Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf
The first year of middle school can be exciting, or scary. Just ask Ginny.
Ignatow, Amy	The Popularity Papers (+)
Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook.
Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody	Lily B. on the Brink of Cool (+)
"The eventually internationally recognized writer Lily Blennerhassett" spends her thirteenth summer missing her best friend and keeping a journal of her boring life at home and exciting newly-discovered relatives.
Klise, Kate	Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks (+)
When the principal asks a fifth-grader to write a letter regarding the purchase of a new drinking fountain for their school, he finds that all sorts of chaos results.
Lindo, Elvira	Manolito Four-Eyes (+)
Recounts the exploits of the irrepressible Manolito as he navigates the world of his small Madrid neighborhood, along with his grandpa, his little brother, and his school friends.
Moss, Marissa	Amelia’s Notebook (+)
The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one.
Nelson, Peter	Herbert’s Wormhole
When almost-sixth-grader Alex, a video game fanatic, is forced on a "playdate" with his neighbor Herbert, an inventor, the two travel to the twenty-second century and face off against aliens, who are not as beneficent as most people think.
Roy, James	Max Quigley: Technically Not a Bully
After playing a prank on one of his "geeky" classmates, sixth-grader Max Quigley's punishment is to be tutored by him.
Russell, Rachel Renee	Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not so Fabulous Life (+)
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
Trueit, Trudi	Secrets of a Lab Rat: No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay) (+)
Fearless nine-year-old "Scab" McNally tries to get his twin sister's help in convincing their parents to let them get a dog, but when he embarrasses her in school with a particularly obnoxious invention, it looks like he has lost her cooperation forever.

 

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