Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Thanksgiving has just passed, and Greg is panicked about being as good
as he can so that Santa Claus will bring him many gifts. Greg spends much
of his free time playing the game Net Critterz online. Greg needs money to
buy his virtual pet new items, but his mom says she will not give him any
money. Later she tells him that he will have to earn his own money to buy
gifts for others this year. Greg asked for money from church in an
envelope request on the church’s Giving Tree, where people help one
another out anonymously.

Greg immediately started working,looking for any way to earn money. His
attempts at shoveling snow end in failure as he tries to use water to get
away the snow –which in turn causes a sheet of ice to build up instead.
Greg and Rowley decide to make a Holiday Bazaar like the school does,
and will sell snacks, offer games, andl gifts. Greg and Rowley discovered it
is too expensive to put a new made by you in the local paper, and the local
paper won’t cover their Bazaar as they wanted it to not be newsworthy.
Greg and Rowley decide to then create their own paper to make their
Bazaar, but Vice Principal Roy will not let them do it at school. Greg and
Rowley decided to tell everyone about their Bazaar by creating posters
and taping them to the school wall. When rain began falling, it causes the
posters to get wet– and green ink to stain the bricks. Greg and Rowley
quickly ran away for the wall because a teacher was comming .

The newspaper made a story about the vandalism. At school, Roy

addresses the student body, demanding that the guilty parties, or anyone
with any information, come forward. Rowley made and gave an anonymous
note saying he and Greg are responsible for the vandalism. Greg refuses to
identify Rowley as the co-conspirator, meaning that Greg must now clean
the bricks alone. It took him several hours, but he manages to do it. At
home, Greg saw the police visited his house, but with no one home,they
have just left a note. Greg is panicked and upset that Roy has brought in
the police.

That night, a terrible blizzard started and stopped after the all weekend so
the police didn’t return. Greg’s dad bought a hotel room near work since he
cannot get home. That leaves Greg, his mother, Rodrick, and Manny at
home alone. Greg quickly got bored, as there are only so many things that
can be done. Then Manny breaks his mom’s glasses so Greg is the one who
must help his mom take care for Manny. When the basement got full of
water as a result of all the snow, Rodrick, must share Greg’s bedroom
upstairs which annoyed Greg even more.After some time, Greg’s dad is
able to return.
Greg is sent to drop off a toy donation at the Toy Drive bin outside the
police station. Greg does this in a ski mask so the police wouldn’t identify
him. He then went to the church to see if anyone has left cash for him,
shoveling the entire parking lot because he couldn’ find the trash where he
said the money should be put under it,but there weren’t any money. The
newspaper made a story the next morning of an anonymous do-gooder who
shoveled the school parking lot, enabling the soup kitchen to open. Greg
made a publishing of his own newspaper to name himself as the do-gooder.