Diary of a Wimpy Kid Read-Alikes

The Diary of a Wimpy Kids series is extremely popular… here are a few more series/books you may want to check out!

Big Nate Series by Lincoln Pierce. Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement. (In a Class by Himself; Strikes Again; On a Roll http://catalogplus.libraryweb.org/#section=resource&resourceid=18386175&currentIndex=0

 

Dear Dumb Diary Series by Jim Benton. In her diary, middle school student Jamie Kelly describes her life at home and at school, including her attempts to triumph over her nemesis, the beautiful and popular Angeline. (Let’s Pretend This Never Happened; My Pants Are Haunted; Am I the Princess or the Frog?; Never Do Anything, Ever; Can Adults Become Human?; The Problem with Here is That It’s Where I’m From; Never Underestimate Your Dumbness; It’s Not My Fault I Know Everything; Okay, So Maybe I do Have Superpowers)http://catalogplus.libraryweb.org/#section=resource&resourceid=11062109&currentIndex=2

 

Knights of the Lunch Table by Frank Cammuso. Arnie opens a mysterious locker at Camelot Middle School and ends up in a dodgeball game with the school bullies. (Dodgeball Chronicles; The Dragon Players; Battling Bands)http://catalogplus.libraryweb.org/#section=resource&resourceid=18393224&currentIndex=0

Zombie Chasers by John Kloepfer. When zombies take over Phoenix, Arizona, Zack Clarke, his best friend Rice, and his older sister’s mean friend Madison Miller team up to try to defeat the undead, or at least survive one another. (Zombie Chasers; Undead Ahead, Sludgement Day) http://catalogplus.libraryweb.org/#section=resource&resourceid=4548850&currentIndex=0

 

Justin Case: School, Drool and Other Daily Disasters by Rachel Vail. It’s the start of the school year, and nothing feels right to Justin. He didn’t get the teacher he wanted, he’s not in the same class as his best friend, and his little sister, Elizabeth, is starting kindergarten at his school. Elizabeth doesn’t seem nervous at all. Justin is very nervous about third grade. And to top it off, he’s lost his favorite stuffed animal, but he can’t tell anyone, because technically he’s too old to still have stuffed animals. Right?http://catalogplus.libraryweb.org/#section=resource&resourceid=3006679&currentIndex=0

Dork Diaries by Renee Russel. Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.(Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life, Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl, Tales From a Not-So-Talented Pop Star, Dork Diaries 3 ½: How to Dork Your Diary)  http://catalogplus.libraryweb.org/#section=resource&resourceid=8440860&currentIndex=1

 

Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow. Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook. (The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang; The Popularity Papers: Book Two: The Long-Distance Dispatch Between Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang; The Popularity Papers: Book Three: Words of (Questionable) Wisdom from Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang)http://catalogplus.libraryweb.org/#section=resource&resourceid=15513204&currentIndex=0

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