Diary of a Wimpy kid E book

The story starts with a protagonist Greg heffley, a student at Larry Mack Junior Middle School, writes a diary to detail his time “stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons” to a future audience reading when he is “rich and famous”. Greg details the local myth surrounding a moldy piece of cheese that has been left at his school’s basketball court for a long time. If someone touches the cheese, they have the curse-like “Cheese Touch” which makes them repellent to others; the victim is stuck with it until they pass it on by touching someone else. The last victim of the Cheese Touch has moved away and Greg hopes nobody starts it up again.Greg also talks about his best friend, Rowley, characterizing him as immature or somewhat stupid, and that his [Greg’s] ideas go “in one ear and out the other” with Rowley.Near Halloween, Greg writes that his father likes to hide in the bushes on Halloween night and drench teenagers that walk by their driveway with a trash can full of water. 

After getting bad presents for Christmas, Greg decides to play a game with Rowley in which Rowley must ride a Big wheel down a hill while Greg tries to knock him off with a football. On one of Greg’s tries, the ball goes under the front wheel, which causes Rowley to fall off and break his hand. 

Greg decides to join the Safety Patrols at his school, hoping that he will be able to control the other kids. He gets Rowley to sign up as well and enjoys the benefits of being a Safety Patrol, such as getting free hot chocolate. He tries to get a spot in the school’s newspaper as a cartoonist and teams up with Rowley. Greg comes up with a strip called Zoo-Wee Mama!, and he and Rowley produce a number of strips. Eventually, Greg starts wanting to do other strips, but Rowley wants to continue with Zoo-Wee Mama!; Greg submits his comics to the teacher and ends up getting the cartoonist job. However, the teacher completely changes Greg’s comic, even making his character a “curious student” instead of a “cretin.”

After an incident where Greg chases some kindergartners with a worm on a stick and is mistaken for Rowley, Rowley gets suspended from the Safety Patrols for a week. However, after it is cleared up that Greg was the real culprit, Rowley is reinstated and promoted while Greg is dismissed.

Greg notices that the school year is coming to a close and tries to get on the yearbook’s Class Favorites page. He plans to go for “Class Clown,” but his plans do not work out. At lunch, he gets an issue of the school newspaper and learns that Rowley is the new cartoonist, with his Zoo-Wee Mama! strip left completely unchanged.

Greg confronts Rowley for not even listing him as co-creator and hogging all the fame. Rowley retaliates by saying that the Zoo-Wee Mama! comic was his idea and that Greg “had nothing to do with it.” As they argue, the teenagers who chased them at Halloween appear and force Greg and Rowley to eat the Cheese. Greg gets out of it by falsely claiming to be allergic to dairy, while Rowley is forced to eat the whole thing. The next day, when everyone notices that the Cheese is gone, Greg takes the fall for Rowley and lies by saying that he threw it away. Greg reconciles with Rowley and lets people think that he has the Cheese Touch.

The book concludes with Greg getting his yearbook, seeing Rowley on the “Class Clown” page, and throwing it in the garbage. This means Greg now has the Cheese Touch, which carries on into the next book.