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Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4)
by
Jeff Kinney
It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn.
Greg, a self-confessed "indoor person,” is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg’s mom has a different vision for an ideal summer . . . one packed with outdoor a...more
Greg, a self-confessed "indoor person,” is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg’s mom has a different vision for an ideal summer . . . one packed with outdoor a...more
Paperback, 218 pages
Published
October 12th 2009
by Amulet Books
(first published January 1st 2009)
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Reviewed by Kira M for TeensReadToo.com
Greg Heffley wants to spend his summer indoors, relaxing, playing video games with his friend, Rowley, and watching late-night horror films. His mom has other ideas, however. She wants him to spend time with the family, improving his education, and playing outdoors.
Greg tries to implement his ideas of summer, but without much success. He tries to spend time with Rowley kicking back at his friend's father's country club, but gets permanently uninvited when h...more
Greg Heffley wants to spend his summer indoors, relaxing, playing video games with his friend, Rowley, and watching late-night horror films. His mom has other ideas, however. She wants him to spend time with the family, improving his education, and playing outdoors.
Greg tries to implement his ideas of summer, but without much success. He tries to spend time with Rowley kicking back at his friend's father's country club, but gets permanently uninvited when h...more
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Plan to finish this today! I like this much better than "The Last Straw". Anyone out there who has read the Wimpy Kid series agree or disagree? So far, my favorite part is Rowley thinking that Greg's family is rich because they ran out of toilet paper and were using Christmas napkins until Dad went to get more TP. Been there done that!
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Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Dog Days
By: Jeff Kinney
Realistic Fiction
216 Pages
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Dog Days is a book about A kid named Greg Heffley. He is funny. This book is about how Greg Heffly spends his summer. But Greg Heffley doesn't spend his summer out side. He stays inside and plays video games. But Greg's mom doesn't like him playing video games. But she thinks of having family vacation and doing activities together. Greg and his friend Rowley do weird stuff during summer vacation. Greg's mo...more
By: Jeff Kinney
Realistic Fiction
216 Pages
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Dog Days is a book about A kid named Greg Heffley. He is funny. This book is about how Greg Heffly spends his summer. But Greg Heffley doesn't spend his summer out side. He stays inside and plays video games. But Greg's mom doesn't like him playing video games. But she thinks of having family vacation and doing activities together. Greg and his friend Rowley do weird stuff during summer vacation. Greg's mo...more
Well, I suppose it wasn't that bad. I expected it to be funnier, but granted I did think it was hilarious when they watched that retarded movie and got all paranoid, that sort of thing happened to me all the time when I was little (recalls Child's Play, *shudders*). Still, I find Greg a very detestful character: he's lazy, selfish, and incredibly dim-witted for a boy in middleschool (unless I'm mistaken and have no idea what a boy his age is like..I mean, my brother's in middle school and is sma...more
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Greg Heffley continues his hilarious escapades over the summer holidays. Poor chap, whatever he does, he just can't win! All his grand schemes and Machiavellian manipulations come to nought, while Rowley wins apparently without trying.
A good read, but after three books, I found the magic to be wearing off just a little. Maybe one should not have an overdose of Greg!
A good read, but after three books, I found the magic to be wearing off just a little. Maybe one should not have an overdose of Greg!
If you would want to know how a life of a unfortanate teenager goes? Then read the Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days. It is about a kid who is in middle school and faces a lot of problems. He faces pretty much faces all the problems you could think of. The main character Greg Heffrey is stuck as a middle child and a social outcast. His younger brother Manny and his older brother Rodrick drive him absulutly nuts with their crazy ways of doing things. His best friend Rowlery Jefferson and own a lot o...more
I personally think that this one is the best one out of the whole entire series!!
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This book follows the life of a boy named Greg during the summer holidays. He spends most of these holiday cooped up inside the house playing video games until his mums urges out the house where he ends up at his friend Rowley's country club. Here they run up a big bill and Rowley's dad is expecting them to pay off the bill so he has to do a few odd jobs to pay this off. This is obviously not how Greg had planned to spend his summer!
This series of books from Jeff Kinney have seemed to have a goo...more
This series of books from Jeff Kinney have seemed to have a goo...more
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days
By: Jesse Margolies
I finished reading this book the other day, and it was a good book. Even though I haven’t read most of this series I skipped right to this book. Here is what I thought of the book.
In this book, Greg and Rowley are just getting out of school to go on summer vacation. The last few summers Greg’s dad has made him be outdoors and not let him play video games. This summer he is destine to play video games all summer. Rowley on the other hand has a me...more
By: Jesse Margolies
I finished reading this book the other day, and it was a good book. Even though I haven’t read most of this series I skipped right to this book. Here is what I thought of the book.
In this book, Greg and Rowley are just getting out of school to go on summer vacation. The last few summers Greg’s dad has made him be outdoors and not let him play video games. This summer he is destine to play video games all summer. Rowley on the other hand has a me...more
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney
Maureen Judith Shea
(2009). Diary of a Wimpy Kid.(p. 217). New York: Amulet Books.
Award
Diary of a Wimpy Kid was named Best Book of the Last Ten Years at the 2012 Blue Peter Book Awards.
Retrieved from http://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/pr.... Scholastic Book Clubs
Format: print
Selection process: Initially reviewed in textbook Literature for Today’s Young Adult by Alleen P. Nelsen. Then I looked for available books by Jeff Kinney in the local library. Fo...more
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney
Maureen Judith Shea
(2009). Diary of a Wimpy Kid.(p. 217). New York: Amulet Books.
Award
Diary of a Wimpy Kid was named Best Book of the Last Ten Years at the 2012 Blue Peter Book Awards.
Retrieved from http://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/pr.... Scholastic Book Clubs
Format: print
Selection process: Initially reviewed in textbook Literature for Today’s Young Adult by Alleen P. Nelsen. Then I looked for available books by Jeff Kinney in the local library. Fo...more
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Name: Conner Rodriguez
Book: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days
Date: 3/8/13
Period: 4
Author: Jeff Kinney
Summary
I chose Diary of a Wimpy Kid because I really enjoyed the first book I read and I wanted to keep on reading the series. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is about Greg just getting out of school and into summer, he thinks he will be doing nothing the whole summer except TV and video games. His mom has a different opinion and tells him to get out of the house and go play with Rowley at the country...more
Name: Conner Rodriguez
Book: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days
Date: 3/8/13
Period: 4
Author: Jeff Kinney
Summary
I chose Diary of a Wimpy Kid because I really enjoyed the first book I read and I wanted to keep on reading the series. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is about Greg just getting out of school and into summer, he thinks he will be doing nothing the whole summer except TV and video games. His mom has a different opinion and tells him to get out of the house and go play with Rowley at the country...more
Mar 05, 2013
Kaoru Hamaguchi
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In this story it is summer time and there is birthday for Greg. It looks nice for him ,but it is start of terrible time. Begging of Summer vacation Greg has 3 things that he want to do in his summer.First is going to beach second is day of end of "L'il Cutie" ,But son of Author have start new L'il Cutie He didn't fun at it. Second is Birth day ,but He didn't got good present and his uncle's dog ate birth day cake so he felled sad good thing is he was able to get fish for another present that ea...more
Diary of a wimpy kid "Dog Days"
Jeff Kinney
224
Realistic Fiction
its finally summer for Greg Heffley and its a good start. He has been playing video games and has had no sunlight on his.(which is good in his mind.) when Greg has to stop playing video games he is really mad because he has to go outside. When he goes to the pool he is really disgusted he has to look at grown and really harry men worst of he has to now take Manny through the mens room. When he finds out Heather Hills is a life Guard h...more
Jeff Kinney
224
Realistic Fiction
its finally summer for Greg Heffley and its a good start. He has been playing video games and has had no sunlight on his.(which is good in his mind.) when Greg has to stop playing video games he is really mad because he has to go outside. When he goes to the pool he is really disgusted he has to look at grown and really harry men worst of he has to now take Manny through the mens room. When he finds out Heather Hills is a life Guard h...more
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Greg Heffley wants to spend his summer indoors, relaxing, playing video games with his friend, Rowley, and watching late-night horror films. His mom has other ideas, however. She wants him to spend time with the family, improving his education, and playing outdoors.
Greg tries to implement his ideas of summer, but without much success. He tries to spend time with Rowley kicking back at his friend's father's country club, but gets permanently uninvited when he accidentally tells the clubhouse mana...more
Greg tries to implement his ideas of summer, but without much success. He tries to spend time with Rowley kicking back at his friend's father's country club, but gets permanently uninvited when he accidentally tells the clubhouse mana...more
This book in my opinion is great. It takes us back to those good old days of elementry and middle school. Even knowing a few of these events have actually happened to us. Filling sorry for the kid one second laughing at his wierd side the next, this book will keep you reading.
THis book relates to our lives in many ways, it reminds of those kids that where kind of off, and tells us some of there stories. Of course, these stories get as off and crazy, sometimes i even wonder if there is a plot!...more
THis book relates to our lives in many ways, it reminds of those kids that where kind of off, and tells us some of there stories. Of course, these stories get as off and crazy, sometimes i even wonder if there is a plot!...more
Dec 03, 2012
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Its summer vaction and all the kids are out side having fun while greg is stuck in the house trying figure out how to have an awsome summer vaction. Gregs friend rowly called him up and asked him if he wanted to go to his families private spa resort but he just had to ask his parents if he could go he already knew his parents were going to say no so he jus told rowly it was ok for him to go so greg and rowly's family all went to the resort. Every day when greg was leaving at the same time gregs...more
by Jeff Kinney
Realistic Fiction
214 pages
Greg Heffley is the protagonist who is really selfish and lazy. He would rather play video games than play with friends. Everything irritated him. He is completely self-obsessed and has no comprehension of other people’s needs. His mother urges him to try to get out of the house but he doesn't obey her because he's learned from experience. When he and Rowley go to Rowley's country club they bring a girl along, but then she starts talking to some life guard...more
Realistic Fiction
214 pages
Greg Heffley is the protagonist who is really selfish and lazy. He would rather play video games than play with friends. Everything irritated him. He is completely self-obsessed and has no comprehension of other people’s needs. His mother urges him to try to get out of the house but he doesn't obey her because he's learned from experience. When he and Rowley go to Rowley's country club they bring a girl along, but then she starts talking to some life guard...more
The book Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days by Jeff Kinney was an good book to read. This book kept me smiling and well entertained, for example when the main character Greg has a new dog and when the dog was sleeping with Greg and the dog hear the doorbell he jumped off Greg's face. I can relate to that because I have a puppy named Benny, and when he hears the doorbell he will jump off on my stomach to get off the bed or couch. Another part of the story that I enjoyed was when the puppy zoomed out o...more
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This book is about a kid named Greg.greg gets picked on at school a he is a nerd.His brother Rodrick gives greg some advice.his advice was that he should not talk to anyone.the only friend he has is rowley. rowley is not as mature as he should be.he still has clothes with pictures of his mom on it.
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This book is about a kid named Greg.greg gets picked on at school a he is a nerd.His brother Rodrick gives greg some advice.his advice was that he should not talk to anyone.the only friend he has is rowley. rowley is not as mature as he should be.he still has clothes with pictures of his mom on it.
Make a conne...more
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Well what can I say, Jeff Kinney has done a great job with the Wimpy kid series and no wonder they are in the bestseller list all the time. People who don't like these book either take this book seriously or have no humour. The joy of these books are that they are light reads and good books to read on holiday. With these books you can do the odd laugh and giggle but they are not meant to be one of those books where the plot and story is really upsetting or really...more
Diary of a wimpy kid is a really good book. It is about this kid that lives a life not very similar to others. It is about his life and the book is his diary. He has a younger brother named many and an old one named Rodrick. He is currently enjoying his summer and has lots of adventures ahead of him. He is having a great summer until he starts having many complications. It turns out that the country club that he and his friend Rowley were going to they didn’t know they had to pay because Rowley’...more
Title:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Author:
Jeff Kinney
Summary:
This book is part of Greg's funny journal focusing on his summer. Greg's idea of his summer vacation being a video game marathon. That was not Greg's mom's idea. This book is mostly about Greg's mom coming up with idea's (that end up not being good ideas at all) to keep Greg off of video games.
The first idea Greg actually like for a while. The idea was he would go with Rowley to the country club Rowley and his parents were a part...more
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Author:
Jeff Kinney
Summary:
This book is part of Greg's funny journal focusing on his summer. Greg's idea of his summer vacation being a video game marathon. That was not Greg's mom's idea. This book is mostly about Greg's mom coming up with idea's (that end up not being good ideas at all) to keep Greg off of video games.
The first idea Greg actually like for a while. The idea was he would go with Rowley to the country club Rowley and his parents were a part...more
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You know what to expect from a Wimpy Kid Diary, don't you? This is just the second book of the series that I have read but already Greg Heffley is turning out to be one of the most interesting characters I have known in the literary world. What one loves about him is his mischief that hides behind his simplicity or the simplicity that hides behind his mischief, put it whichever way you like! Dog Days mainly talks about Greg's summer holidays... the things he wants to do versus the things he is m...more
This hilariously sharp comic book is written from the perspective of 11 year-old Greg, whose canny jokes and observations have become a series of popular books. Dog Days chronicles Greg's Summer holiday, which he wants to spend playing video games in his room, with the curtains shut and a cover over his head. Greg's mum, however, seems to think that Summer holidays should be spent doing 'useful things' such as running around outside, spending time with one's family and visiting the local pool.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is one of the 5 hilarious books of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is basically a book, which features everyday life for the main character, Greg Heffley like all the other books. Greg has summer holidays and his kind of summer holiday is sitting in front of the T.V in the dark with the curtains shut. Life is good for him until sudden interruptions start to take place, his mum thinks...more
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is one of the 5 hilarious books of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is basically a book, which features everyday life for the main character, Greg Heffley like all the other books. Greg has summer holidays and his kind of summer holiday is sitting in front of the T.V in the dark with the curtains shut. Life is good for him until sudden interruptions start to take place, his mum thinks...more
2011 has been a year of very heavy literature for me. 1/3 through the way of Count of Monte Cristo, I decided to take a quick break with something "fun". I've heard a lot about these books, and with volumes 5 and 6 being the only ones at my library I (correctly) assumed that it is the kind of series one could pick up in the middle and not lose anything substantial.
The first night, I was laughing. Quite hard, actually. It just seemed full of wit and vinegar. Tonight, though, reading the last half...more
The first night, I was laughing. Quite hard, actually. It just seemed full of wit and vinegar. Tonight, though, reading the last half...more
This is a great series featuring the funny, irreverent antics of Greg Heffley and his dysfunctional family. In this installment, Greg is looking forward to a summer filled with sleep, video games and more sleep. His mother has other ideas. She makes him join a book club, go to the public pool, and attempts to set up a playdate for him with Fregley, the local weird kid. All her efforts backfire in typical hilarious Greg Heffley fashion. Other events in this book include a failed lawn mowing busin...more
This book if the fourth entry in the diary of a wimpy kid series. Greg is on summer vacation and he wants it to be the best summer ever. The begining of his summer was ok but it was starting to get ruff. he was sleeping all day his dad started to get mad because he was still in bed when he got home from work. So his dad started call to make sure he was up by noon. Then started to get worse when one day his mom said she had a suprise for the family. They were taking a car ride to a place for the...more
In the beginning of the summer Greg went to a theme park and was never old enough to go on the ride the zipper. His brother always said to be a man you had to go on that ride. Greg was finally old enough to go on the ride and his friend Raleigh was too scared to go on the ride with him. Greg went on the ride by himself and it made him dizzy. He told his friend that if he went to the beach he wouldn't be dizzy anymore. He felt that the Ocean is a toilet for fishes and sharks so he had never gone...more
In this review I am going to talk about is called diary of a wimpy kid dog days. It about Greg and it is during the summer Greg want to spend his summer playing video games but his family want to go on a vacation. This book caught my eyes because I enjoy reading books about pictures. This book is interesting to me because it will help me to write my own diary some day.
Apart of the story that i liked was when Greg had a sleep over with his friend at his house. Greg's room was too small for them s...more
Apart of the story that i liked was when Greg had a sleep over with his friend at his house. Greg's room was too small for them s...more
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Jeff Kinney is an author of children's books including Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. Jeff was born in College Park, Maryland, in 1971 where he created a comic strip called "Igdoof."He also created the children's website 'Poptropica'.
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