Synopsis: In Rodrick Rules, summer’s over, and Greg Heffley would very much like to forget it happened. Unfortunately, his older brother Rodrick was there for all of it — and he’s not about to let a good secret go to waste in book two of Jeff Kinney’s bestselling series.
Greg thought summer break would fade into a distant memory the second school started again. Instead, it walks right through the front door every day in the form of Rodrick — older brother, self-appointed tormentor, and the one person alive who knows exactly what happened over vacation. Whatever it was, Greg would rather eat the Cheese Touch again than have it spread through the hallways.
Kinney lets the sibling dynamic drive most of the book’s chaos this time: Rodrick’s garage band, Löded Diper, rehearses loud enough to rattle the house, family road trips go sideways in new and creative ways, and every conversation feels like Greg is one wrong word away from disaster. It’s a shift from book one’s survival-of-middle-school focus toward something closer to survival-of-your-own-household, and the comedy lands just as hard.
A New York Times bestseller in its own right, Rodrick Rules helped prove the first book wasn’t a fluke — and eventually inspired both a live-action film and, years later, an animated Disney+ adaptation. For anyone who’s ever had a sibling threaten to spill their secrets, Greg’s predicament will feel uncomfortably familiar.
Notable: New York Times bestseller; adapted into the 2011 live-action film and a 2022 animated Disney+ film.
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- Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Book 2)
- Author: Jeff Kinney
- Publisher: Amulet Books
- Publication date: February 1, 2008
- Format: Hardcover (original edition)
- ISBN-13: 9780810994737 · ISBN-10: 0810994739
- Pages: 226 pages
- Genre: Middle-grade fiction / Humor / Illustrated novel
- Condition: Very Good
- Stock: Out of Stock
- Price: KES850
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