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Getting to know My Authors' [|Jeff Kinney]

Jeff Kinney is the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. This book is the third book in the series "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw. If you have read either of the books you'll know that Greg (the main character) is a wimpy kid who is trying to fit in in his new world of middle school and in this book his dad is tired of him being wimpy and wants to see him toughen up. His dad tells him that if he can't become tough then he's going to send him off to military school because he thinks this will help make him tough. Through out the story, Greg goes through a series of challenges that actually makes him more courageous then he thinks. He also faces many challenges that doesn't have anything to do with him becoming tough, but are funny situations that he experiences.

An example is when he and his best friend Riley decided to bury a time capsule so that in the future someone can get the things they had in it. Greg goes through all of these problems and finally in the end his hard work pays off.

Next, I will tell what helped Greg's father decide to not send him to military school. What happens is that their neighbors planned a birthday party for their 6 month old twins. This family was always trying to win America's Funniest Families so, they asked that everyone who comes to the party do something silly in front of their baby while they recorded it and the they will send in the funniest act. When it is almost Greg's dad's turn, Greg was trying to get a blanket out the tree that his little brother Manny mistakenly put up there and when he goes to get it his dad was also just going up to do a joke that he really did not want to do and when Greg was about to grab the blanket his pants falls and everyone sees his Wonder Woman underwear. His neighbors caught it on tape and he saved his dad from embarassing himself so, when the next day comes for him to go to military school his dad let's him stay because he thought that Gred purposefully did the pants falling act to help him get out of having to tell the joke. Since Greg's dad felt that nothing can be much braver than that he decided that Greg had grown braver and tougher after all. The thematic statement in this book is that you don't have to be courageous to do something that envolves courage.

This is my most favorite book out of the three because it keeps me interested and it keeps me laughing. I would also read another book by this author.

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