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Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother, Rodrick, from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.

Charlie Joe Jackson, proud to say he has never read an entire book, pays his friend Timmy to do the reading for him in exchange for an ice cream sandwich, but when Timmy's price goes up, Charlie faces the choice between being blackmailed or breaking his non-reading streak.

"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task.

Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.

Alex "Skinnybones" Frankovitch's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world.

Irrepressible, twelve-year-old Alex is convinced that he will be a star and impress his schoolmates when, as the winner of a cat food essay contest, he is asked to make a commercial for national television.

Led by Duncan "Gluestick" Dewey, the NERDS team uses brain power and courage rather than gadgets when they face off against supervillain Simon, his band of savage squirrels, and Albert, a middle-aged computer genius who lives with his mother.

Flat Stanley saves the day when Miss Plum shows the class her sparkly new engagement ring during show-and-tell and the ring goes missing.

Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.

"Donovan Curtis has never been what anyone would call "gifted." But his genius friend Noah Youkilis is actually supergifted, with one of the highest IQs around.

After surviving sixth grade, Rafe expects seventh grade to be a fun zone because he has been accepted to art school in the big city, but when he discovers it is more competitive than he expected, he sets out to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art.