Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck
First edition hardcover
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| Author | Jeff Kinney |
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| Illustrator | Jeff Kinney |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| Genre | Child, Young Adult |
| Publisher | Amulet Books |
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November 5, 2013 (United States) |
| Media type | Print (paperback, hardcover) |
| Pages | 217 |
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| Preceded by | The Third Wheel |
| Followed by | The Long Haul |
November 5, 2013 (United States)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck is a children's novel written by Jeff Kinney and the eighth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The book's existence was announced at the end of the previous book in the series, The Third Wheel. Hard Luck was released on November 5, 2013 in the United States with a print run of 5.5 million copies and on November 6 in the United Kingdom, where it had a printing of 800,000 copies.
Despite Susan's words about "friends will come and go but family is forever", Greg has been doubting that, since he was ditched by Rowley, who has been hanging out with Abigail, who is his new girlfriend. Ever since the two became a couple, Rowley has been acting more wealthy and starts to forget about Greg. Greg has noticed that because of the events of Third Wheel, Abigail has hated Greg and so she tries to drive a wedge between Greg and Rowley.
Greg has then gotten bored without Rowley, and there was no way he would do chores for Susan. So Greg tries get new friends, and he ends up with Fregley, who has been only going around through the newest "Find A Friend" station. Greg got Fregley help him with his backpack, only to be chased by a group called the Mingo Kids, which lead to Fregley tossing out Greg's Books for school at the Mingo kids so they can read them and stop. The Next Day, Greg and Fregley try to impress the girls during lunch, but Fregley got his shirt stuck, and when he finally got it out, his tricks by chewing gum with his belly button, Fregley instead blew a bubble at the girls. Despite that, Fregley becomes popular among the other kids to see what could Fregley chew.
Susan one day announces to the Heffleys that her family will come to town for Easter, which totally blindsided Greg and his dad, Frank. So on Easter, the Heffleys went straight from Church to Gramma's house. Soon the day becomes a disaster after a lookout for Great grandma Meemaw's ring. The next day, Greg finds an old Magic 8 Ball from Rodrick when he was a kid, and has since used to do choices.
Greg decides to join the Yearbook Club, and got the job to do the pictures for the "Candids" page. Greg got many pictures as he could (even though some of them were random) and he got fun for editing the pictures, like adding humor to the pictures or get revenge on his rivals by shrinking their heads by 75%. A few days later, Greg got to take the pictures for the Class Favorite candids. Fregley won for "Most Popular", which surprised Greg, but he got to suffer when he took pictures of Rowley and Abigail, who won for "Cutest Couple".
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