Readalikes for Diary of a Wimpy Kid
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner.
Eleven-year-old
Ellie McDoodle illustrates her sketchbook with chronicles of her adventures and mishaps while camping with her cousins, aunt, and uncle.
In her diary, middle school student Jamie Kelly describes her life at home and at school, including her attempts to triumph over her nemesis, the beautiful and popular Angeline.
As fifth grade comes to an end, '
Cheesie' Mack and his best friend find their summer plans are drastically changed, due in part to a valuable coin that may belong to the mysterious inhabitants of
a place they call The Haunted Toad.
When Miss Breakbone confiscates Junkyard's crucial find, Wheels, Pencil, Spider, and the rest of the
Dunderheads plot to teach her a lesson.
Claudia wants to prove that she should be a junior counselor at Blue River
Camp next year, but first she must face mean girls, the boy she has a crush on, a seven-year-old rascal she often babysits, her own bad luck, and a challenging swimming test
To
the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers,
Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.
Middle schooler
Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding
reading, but eventually his schemes go too far.
The first year of
middle school can be exciting, or scary, just ask Ginny.
Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd.
When Danny gets caught trying to cross his name off the "Geek"
list in the girls' bathroom, he's sent to detention. Bullies torment him mercilessly -- until they discover that Danny can draw.
Legendary
Griff Carver joins the Rampart Middle School Hallway Patrol and with the help of his new friends,
Griff solves the case of counterfeit hall passes.
Jeremy Bender and his best friend dress up as girls to infiltrate
the Cupcake Cadet troop in an attempt to win
the Windjammer Whirl model sailboat contest, and
the prize money that comes with it
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is very good at lying and doing so makes life easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end his lies forever.
After playing a prank on one of his "geeky" classmates, sixth-grader
Max Quigley's punishment is to be tutored by him.
In love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the "One Eyed Jack" of friends, seventh-grader
Milo Cruikshank misses his mother whose death has changed everything at home.
Rodney, an admitted coward, moves
to Ohio where
the middle school
bully immediately singles him out, but when a stray baseball knocks
the bully out just as he is about
to beat Rodney up, Rodney gains an undeserved reputation as a tough guy.
Dubbed
a "reluctant reader" by his teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends summer vacation learning important lessons even though he does not complete his summer reading list.
It's the start of the school year, and nothing feels right to
Justin. He didn't get the teacher he wanted, he's not in the same class as his best friend, and his little sister, Elizabeth, is starting kindergarten at his school.