Dog Days by Jeff Kinney

Dog Days by Jeff Kinney

It's summer and the weather is great! But where is Greg Heffley? Inside of course, playing his video games with his shades drawn.

Greg, an "indoor person" , is living his ultimate summer fantasy: no rules, no regulations, no responsibility.

But his mom has different ideas. She planned a whole summer of outside time and family time.

I liked this book, heck, I like this whole series. Its funny and realistic, despite being drawn in cartoons. It actually seems as if its being told by an 8th grader. I liked the ending because it was kind of unsuspecting.

Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen

Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon

Mary Elizebeth Cep (or Lola) longs to be in the spotlight. But when her family moves to "Deadwood" Dellwood, New Jersey, Lola thinks she has a fresh start and a chance to become the school's drama queen, but soon she realizes that the role of school drama queen is already filled by a "BTRE" (a born to run everything) Carla Santini. Which drama queen will take center stage???

I have already watched the movie, so I had an idea what was going to happen next, so yeah. Actually, I kinda didn't want to read this book, but I kinda ran out of books to read, so yeah.
I thought this book was ok. I mean "Lola" didn't seem that believable, she seemed a little too much of a "drama queen" to be real.

How To Be Popular

How To Be Popular by Meg Cabot

Who wants to be popular?
Everyone does. Well atleast Steph Laundry does. But after a certain, Super Big Cherry Big Gulp (a type of cherry soda apparently) catastrophe in the 6th grade, after 5 years of embarrassment and shunning, her chances of being popular is close to zero, zip, none. Not only that, her only friends are a scrapbooking country girl, Becca (not that scrapbooking is bad), and her best friend Jason, who had a passion for astromony, who had turned hot before her eyes, but still. But with her secret weapon, an old book called "How To Be Popular" she is determined to make all her classmates realize that she is not the idiot who they joke about(apparently they have a joke that goes like this "oh don't pull a Steph Laundry" or "Stop being such a Steph") and is a girl who is meant to be the queen of the school.

I honestly thought that this book was pretty boring, and not that intresting, I mean the plot is okay, but it doesn't pull you foward, but it was intresting. I liked how they had "pages" from the book, and a little "side story" to it about her grandpa and his new bride Kitty. Hmm, for some reason I've been reading alot of Meg Cabot books recently...I dunno. Maybe I should read some other book now...

Maggie Bean Stays Afloat

Maggie Bean Stays Afloat by Tricia Rayburn

Maggie Bean is now no longer the girl who hides in her room and chows down on chocolate at night.

But, after 6 long months of being on Pound Patrollers (Weight Watchers? is it like that?) the scale now is at 146, and now she's new and improved and is trying hard to convince Peter that she is the girl for him. But not only that, she has a busy summer ahead of her, teaching at a summer camp.

This was a good book, despite how it was about weight-loss and a girl fitting in. Hehe, I kinda found out this was the 2nd book after I finished it so.......

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid #3 The Last Straw

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid #3 The Last Straw By Jeff Kinney



Greg Heffley is a wimpy kid, and always will be one, face it, but someone just needs to tell Greg's dad that.

Greg's dad, thinks that he can toughen Greg up, and makes Greg join organized sports like soccer, or do other "manly" things.



But of course, Greg is easily able to avoid his dad's effort to change him, but when Greg's dad threatens to send Greg off to military camp, Greg realized that he has to shape up...or get shipped out.



This was a funny and entertaining book, this is the last book in the 3 book series (i think)

so yeah, i like the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid series because Greg acts like any regular not so popular kid, so it's easy to relate to, and of course it's funny, and it's very realistic.



Praise for Diary of a Wimpy Kid:



"Move over Harry Potter... There's a new set of titles dominating the bestseller list for kids' chapter books, and there's nothing 'fantasy' about these."

-Andres Yeats on NPR's All Things Considered



"A big hit with reluctant readers and anyone looking for a funny book."

-School Library Journal



"Perfectly pitched wit and believably self-centered hero..."

-The New York Times