Synopsis: In the Big Shot, Sports and Greg Heffley have never gotten along — and a disastrous field day only confirms it. But when his mom talks him into one last shot at basketball, Greg lands on the worst team in the league, setting up book sixteen’s unlikely underdog story.
A humiliating field-day performance is enough to convince Greg Heffley that his athletic career is officially over. Retirement doesn’t last long, though — his mom has other plans, and somehow Greg finds himself at basketball tryouts, certain he won’t make the cut. He’s wrong, but not in the way he’d hoped: Greg lands a spot, just on the one team in the league nobody expects to win a single game.
What follows tracks a season that looks doomed from the opening tip-off, as Greg and his mismatched teammates stumble through practices and losses that would break a more optimistic kid’s spirit entirely.
Kinney leans into the gap between Greg’s low expectations and the team’s even lower performance, mining it for the same blend of cringe and comedy that’s defined the series since book one — right up until the moment the ball ends up in Greg’s hands with everything on the line.
Sixteen books in, the series shows no sign of running out of ways to make Greg’s bad luck funny, and this entry does it through the very thing Greg swore off at the start: sports. A solid pick for readers already hooked on Greg’s world, and an easy entry point for anyone who’s ever ended up on a team that was clearly not built to win.
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- Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot (Book 16)
- Author: Jeff Kinney
- Publisher: Amulet Books (Harry N. Abrams)
- Publication date: October 26, 2021
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9781419760921
- Pages: 224 pages
- Genre: Middle-grade fiction / Humor / Illustrated novel
- Condition: Very Good
- Stock: Out of Stock
- Price: KES550
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