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| Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) | 
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| Author: Jeff Kinney
Publisher: Amulet Books
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
Buy New: $4.64
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Avg. Customer Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 103
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0810994739
EAN: 9780810994737
ASIN: 0810994739
Publication Date: February 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW, SOFT COVER COPY, NO UGLY REMAINDER MARKS.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Diary of a wimpy kid: Roderick Rules February 8, 2008
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Absolutely delightful. All our kids, especially the 9 year old just love this 'series'. It is just so funny. Great to encourage kids to read!
 Diary of a Selfish Kid April 1, 2008
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
I read most of this book to my 7th and eighth grade classes. I could not help noticing how selfish Greg was: nothing was his fault; he was always looking for a way out of a tough situation. There is really nothing redeeming about his character. The book, however, has some really funny parts.
The funniest book of all time ! January 28, 2008
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have read the first book, and it was great. So then I decided to buy the second one, and I couldn't put it down. I finished the book in a couple of hours. It was so funny! I'm looking forward to the third one! Meanwhile I'll keep reading the first and second books.
It's a must-have book!
The Perils of Middle School in a Diary Format January 30, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
He did it again. Jeff Kinney has taken the ups and downs of middle school, friendship, parents and brothers and turned them into a wonderful diary-novel complete with pictures. It's a nonstop read. I laughed so hard and the characters stay with you long after you put the book down. This is a great book for reluctant readers. The best news, there is a third diary on the way!!!!
 Jeff Rules! March 1, 2008
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is only about perfect. The art is simple but irresistable. The writing is simple but keeps you reading. What's better, the pictures often tell the story and the writing only alludes to it. It's in the first person, and that's been done, say on Nick's Doug. It was also done in Little Lulu comic books. But the first person journal (or diary) is an excellent way to write. The brilliant thing is to combine it with compelling drawing. Manny looks a bit like a character from Matt Groening's Life in Hell. The cover drawing is just about perfect. You can tell that Rodrick just pushed Greg, without the need for any action lines. The understated expressions yet perfectly convey their emotions. The cover even has glossy pieces of tape on the corners of the picture. And of course, it looks like a diary (which is what it is). It's not meant to be story strong or overdone like a graphic novel or stuffed into four tiny squares as the newspaper comics are these days. It's its own form, but nevertheless, doesn't hit you over the head with a moral, tie up into a too tidy ending, or get schmaltzy like "for kids" movies.
I heard this comic started on the Internet. If so, the Internet just went up a couple points in my book. Here are reasons not to read this book. The book before it was number one on the New York Times Bestseller list. That's no reason to read a book (or the New York Times). The best selling non-fiction book of the entire decade of the '70s never once appeared on that list. And have you seen the books on there? Another bad reason is that it gets kids reading. Have you seen what gets passed off as kids' books these days? Let kids find good books to read (here's one).
If a man lies in bed, let him do it for no reason at all, Chesterton wrote in an essay called-- ready?-- "On Lying in Bed". "Then he will get up a healthy man." If a kid (of any age) reads this book. let him or her do it for the best reason-- no reason at all, and he or she will close the cover a healthy kid.
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