Author | Jeff Kinney |
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Illustrator | Jeff Kinney |
Cover artist | Jeff Kinney |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
Genre | Comedy |
Publisher | Amulet Books |
Publication date
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February 1, 2008 |
Media type | Print (paperback, hardcover) |
Pages | 217 |
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Preceded by | Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
Followed by | The Last Straw |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules is a satirical realistic fiction novel by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney, based on the FunBrain.com version. It is the sequel to Diary of a Wimpy Kid, followed by The Last Straw. The hardcover was released on February 1, 2008.Rodrick Rules was named New York Times bestseller among awards and praise. A film of the same name was released on March 25, 2011.
Greg explains how bad his summer vacations were with the swim team practices at 7 am, him being the worst swimmer on the team, and his brother Rodrick annoying him, who knows a secret that Greg is trying to keep. After Rodrick puts him in the back of his van and finds every speed bump in the town, he drops Greg off to school, but Greg finds out he still has the Cheese Touch from last year. He gets away with passing it on to a new kid. Later, it is clear that Greg and Rodrick are always broke, so Mom starts a "Mom Bucks" to get Greg and Rodrick to get along with each other. Rodrick, at first, mismanages the money on his heavy metal magazines, while Greg carefully and sensibly manages the cash. Rodrick has an upcoming science project, and that he would prefer to do it on 'Gravity', but clearly shows no effort, and asks his family members to do it for him. Rodrick later pretends to have the flu, and after Mom and Dad leave the house, he calls every friend he knows and has a party. A month later, Greg notices Rowley has play money identical to that of "Mom Bucks" and takes it home to put under his mattress. When Greg fails to do his history homework, he must borrow an assignment from Rodrick and pay him $20,000 in Mom Bucks. Unfortunately, Mom finds out about the stolen Mom Bucks when Rodrick tries to cash in the lot and she confiscates all of Greg's Mom Bucks, including his real ones.
After Thanksgiving, Rodrick's party is uncovered by a photo and he is grounded for a month. Greg is accused of being an 'accomplice' to Rodrick, and is banned from playing video games for two weeks, even though he had been locked in the basement the whole time and had nothing to do with the party. Rodrick then starts preparing for the talent show, despite his punishment (he wasn't allowed to leave the house and was specifically told not to go to the show). Dad then ends his punishment two weeks early because listening to Rodrick's band every single day was driving him totally bananas. After Greg injures Rowley by putting a dumbbell in a pillow that Rowley kicks during a sleepover, Greg must perform in the talent show with a first-grader, Scotty Douglas, who Rowley was partners with. They don't qualify, but Rodrick's band does. Rodrick, eager to continue to the talent show, hands in his Gravity science project earlier, but then is forced to redo it since his project lacked several requirements. Rodrick tries to tell the teacher clearly about it, but then the teacher claims that it was a fairly easy experiment and it did not make clear sense.