\ REPORT Greg, the star of the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid, is a very shy and self-conscious* kid! But he has many fans! He has won our hearts with his misadventures; not only ours, but the heart of every single teenager in the world!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid* “This is a log-book*!” Gregory Heffley is an eleven-yearold boy in his first year at senior school. His mother, Susan, suggests that he writes a diary to record all of his thoughts and feelings. Greg only agrees to the diary because when he grows up and is rich and famous, he won’t have to waste time telling his life story to journalists. He insists that this is not a girly* diary full of emotions, it is a log-book of his journey through life! A wimpy kid called Greg Gregory calls himself a wimpy kid! In fact, he really isn’t physically strong and he’s not great at school either, even if he tries hard; he gets embarrassed around girls and he doesn’t know how to stand up to the school bully. His dad wants him to be more sporty and his mum never wastes a chance to teach him about good manners. His older brother picks on him* while his younger brother lets him take the blame for everything.
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Unauthorised photocopyng is illegal.
Everything he tries to do fails: his attempt to become the school treasurer turns into a disaster, just like his idea of making “ghost house” to try to scrape together* some money; not to mention that crazy idea of pretending to have a terrible infection* on his hands to impress the girls at school!
A wimpy 40-year old! The author, Jeff Kinney, is an American computer games designer who, just for fun, published Greg’s adventures in a blog in 2004. The blog immediately registered 70,000 readers a day. Jeff Kinney, who is 40 years old, says he is very lucky and owes the success of his books to his very own disappointments and failures as a teenager. “It’s because of them that the character of Greg was born! The secret is to try to laugh a little at our own misadventures!”