This is the third of four books that I know of about Greg Heffley, The Wimpy Kid. I've read all but one of the books and I like them all. Even though each book has "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" in the title, Greg makes it clear at the start of each one that the book is NOT a diary, but a journal. He explains that diaries are for writing down your feelings and others might think he's a sissy if they see him carrying around a diary. So his books are journals, which just tell about what happens in his life.

In the beginning of this book, Greg is always accidentally making his dad mad by doing things like watching TV rather than going outside to play and making noises at night that wake up his dad. In the book, Greg admits to having a crush on a classmate named Holly Hills so he tries to make her have a crush on him by doing goofy things, like telling jokes. It doesn't work. Greg then meets a girl named Trista and he ends up falling in love with her. He plans to bring her to his friend Rowley's pool for a date, but he runs out of paper in his journal before he tells what happens.

I like the Wimpy Kid books because they are funny and they give me ideas for pranks and jokes to do with my friends, my dad, my mom and my brothers. If Greg were real, I'd like to play with him.