Synopsis: In The Ugly Truth, Growing up isn’t the upgrade Greg Heffley thought it would be. Between boy-girl parties, new responsibilities, and a falling-out with his best friend Rowley, book five of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series finds Greg facing the awkward reality that getting older doesn’t automatically make life easier.
Greg Heffley has spent his whole life wishing he were older — more freedom, more respect, fewer rules. Now that adolescence is finally catching up to him, he’s discovering it’s not the upgrade he imagined. Boy-girl parties bring a whole new set of social landmines. Family responsibilities pile up faster than he can dodge them. And to make things worse, changes he never asked for are showing up whether he likes it or not.
Then a falling-out with Rowley — the one person who’s had his back through every previous disaster — leaves Greg without his usual partner in crime, forcing him to navigate this stretch of growing up almost entirely on his own. As always, Kinney turns the small humiliations of adolescence into something both painfully relatable and laugh-out-loud funny, sketched out in Greg’s own hand alongside the diary entries.
A Goodreads Choice Award winner, this fifth installment keeps the series’ reputation intact as one of the most effective “reluctant reader” gateways in children’s publishing — proof that growing up is funniest when someone else is the one going through it.
Notable: Won the Goodreads Choice Award; part of a series that has sold over 275 million copies worldwide…
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- Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
- Author: Jeff Kinney
- Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 5
- Publisher: Amulet Books (Harry N. Abrams)
- Publication date: November 9, 2010 (hardcover); paperback followed in 2011
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN-13 (paperback): 978-0810984905 ISBN-13 (hardcover): 978-1419741890
- Pages: 224 page
- Genre: Middle-grade fiction / Humor / Illustrated novel
- Condition: Very Good
- Availability: Sold
- Price: KES650
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