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PUFFIN BOOKS

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

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BY JEFF KINNEY
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book

Coming soon:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5

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DIARY

by Jeff Kinney

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PUFFIN BOOKS
Published by the Penguin Group
Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA
Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M 4 P 2 Y 3
(a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.)
Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd)
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(a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd)
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Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand
(a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd)
Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank,
Johannesburg 2196, South Africa
Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London

WC2R

0RL, England

puffinbooks.com
First published in the English language in 2009
by Amulet Books, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York
(All rights reserved in all countries by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)
Published in Great Britain in Puffin Books 2009
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Wimpy Kid text and illustrations copyright Wimpy Kid, Inc., 2009
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID and Greg Heffley image are trademarks of Wimpy Kid, Inc.
Book design by Jeff Kinney
Cover design by Chad W. Beckerman and Jeff Kinney
All rights reserved
The moral right of the author/illustrator has been asserted
Made and printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that
it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise
circulated without the publishers prior consent in any form of binding or cover
other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this
condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN :

9780141327655

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Cert no. SA-COC-1592

Penguin Books is committed to a sustainable future


for our business, our readers and our planet.
The book in your hands is made from paper
certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.

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JUNE
Friday
For me, summer break is basically a three-month
guilt trip.
Just because the weather's nice, everyone expects
you to be outside all day frolicking or whatever.
And if you don't spend every second outdoors
people think there's something wrong with you.
But the truth is I've always been more of an
indoor person.
The way I like to spend my summer holiday is in
front of the TV, playing video games with the
curtains closed and the lights turned off.

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Unfortunately, Mom's idea of the perfect summer


holiday is different from mine.

Mom says it's not natural for a kid to stay


indoors when it's sunny out. I tell her that I'm
just trying to protect my skin so I don't look
all wrinkly when I'm old like her, but she doesn't
want to hear it.
Mom keeps trying to get me to do something
outside, like go to the pool. But I spent the
first part of the summer at my friend Rowley's
pool, and that didnt work out so good.

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Rowleys family belongs to a country club and,


when school let out for the summer, we were
going there every single day.

Then we made the mistake of inviting this girl named


Trista whod just moved into our neighbourhood. I
thought it would be really nice of us to share our
country-club lifestyle with her. But five seconds
after we got to the pool she met some lifeguard and
forgot all about the guys whod invited her there.

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The lesson I learned is that some people wont


think twice about using you, especially when
theres a country club involved.
Me and Rowley were better off without a girl
hanging around, anyway. Were both bachelors at
the moment, and during the summer its better
to be unattached.

A few days ago I noticed the quality of service


at the country club was starting to go down a
little. Like sometimes the temperature in the
sauna was a few degrees too hot, and one time
the poolside waiter forgot to put one of those
little umbrellas in my fruit smoothie.
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I reported all my complaints to Rowleys dad.


But for some reason Mr Jefferson never passed
them on to the clubhouse manager.

Which is kind of weird. If it was me who was


paying for a country-club membership, Id want
to make sure I was getting my moneys worth.
Anyway, a little while later Rowley told me he
wasnt allowed to invite me to his pool any more,
which is fine with me. I'm much happier inside
my air-conditioned house, where I don't have to
check my soda can for bees every time I go to
take a sip.

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Saturday
Like I said, Mom keeps trying to get me to go to
the pool with her and my little brother, Manny,
but the thing is my family belongs to the TOWN
pool, not the country-club. And once you've tasted
the country-club life, it's hard to go back to being
an ordinary Joe at the town pool.

Besides, last year I swore to myself that I


would never go back to that place again. At the
town pool you have to go through the locker
room before you can go swimming, and that means
walking through the shower area, where grown
men are soaping down right out in the open.

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The first time I walked through the mens


locker room at the town pool was one of the
most traumatic experiences of my life.

I'm probably lucky I didn't go blind. Seriously,


I don't see why Mom and Dad bother to try
and protect me from horror movies and stuff like
that if they're gonna expose me to something
about a thousand times worse.
I really wish Mom would stop asking me to go to
the town pool because, every time she does, it
puts images in my mind that I've been trying
hard to forget.

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