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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown

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demoralized as the Lower Surrey Street kids begin besieging the wall. A Lower Surrey Street spy lures many Upper Surrey Street defenders away from the fort, allowing the Lower Surrey Street kids to destroy it, but the long-resentful school Safety Patrol begin to attack the various Surrey Street kids. The Whirley Street kids get involved, but they as well as the Surrey Street and Safety Patrol kids band together against the attacking Mingo Kids. Tired of the violence, Greg and Rowley attempt to hide in the remains of the snow fort, but when a delayed snowplow arrives and drives through the remains of the fight, everyone agrees to stop fighting. Days later, the weather begins to clear up. Greg is glad that he survived the snowball fight.
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Greg and his friend Rowley take the bus of the rival Whirley Street, and are mistakenly blamed for having thrown a snowball at the bus driver. The two are kicked off the bus and dropped off near the woods, where they accidentally wander into the camp of the Mingo Kids, a savage group who live in the
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Greg is frustrated at school when his classmates are unsanitary, and struggles with the cold weather. While walking to school, Greg is stopped by the Safety Patrol, an authoritative organization of only female students. The students begin rioting at the school when they fear that they will be snowed
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is a "war book." While writing the conflict of a snowstorm, he attempted to keep it authentic to what children could experience in real life. Kinney acknowledged the presence of political elements to the story: "It was definitely hard not to think about . I’m not making specific commentary, but the
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The next morning, Greg meets with Rowley and builds a snow fort, indirectly starting a snowball fight among the Upper Surrey Street kids. They agree to team up after being ambushed by the Lower Surrey Street residents, and build a single gigantic fort, enjoying early success but slowly being
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assignment, his mother punishes him by not allowing him to watch television or play video games. Greg is unable to play outside due to a rivalry between groups on his street: those who live on the straight Lower Surrey Street or the slanted Upper Surrey Street. The day after, his family
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was advertised through a live book tour by Kinney. Upon release, the novel sold several hundred thousand copies and received positive reviews from critics.
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s first week, over 234,000 copies were sold. It had 743,309 sales by December 6, 2018. By March 2019,
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enjoyed the snowball fight climax, but found the rest of the book "less cohesive and engaging."
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unsuccessfully searches for their pet pig, which they acquired during the events of
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woods. However, Greg and Rowley are saved when they come across Greg's father.
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as the sixth bestselling book of 2018, and the 65th bestselling of 2019. In
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led Kinney to host another book tour for the following series installment,
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and how it will impact his life in the future. When he forgets about a
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Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal
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for its comedy and fast pacing. Carrie R. Wheadon of
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Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Children's literature
Graphic novel
Amulet Books
Puffin Books
The Getaway
Wrecking Ball
https://wimpykid.com/books/book13/
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
climate change
social studies
The Long Haul
Amulet
National Geographic Kids
Common Sense Media
USA Today


"Jeff Kinney puts on a show to launch new Wimpy Kid book"
The Washington Post



"On the Road with 'Wimpy Kid' Creator Jeff Kinney: The Meltdown Tour"
"Jeff Kinney events in Newcastle and Edinburgh | The Bookseller"

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