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When snow shuts down Greg Heffley's middle school, his neighborhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball fights. And in the crosshairs are Greg and his trusty best friend, Rowley Jefferson. It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighborhood meltdown. When the snow clears, will Greg and Rowley emerge as heroes? Or will they even survive to see another day?

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	30 octobre 2018
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781683353874
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	8 Mo

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The Getaway

The Meltdown

The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: The Next Chapter

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to DEB

january

Monday

Everybody in my neighborhood is outside today

enjoying the warm weather and sunshine. Well,

everyone except ME . It s kind of hard to enjoy a

heat wave when it s the middle of the WINTER .

People are calling this wacky weather, but it

just doesn t feel right. Maybe I m old-fashioned,

but I think it should be cold in the winter and

hot in the SUMMER .

I ve heard the whole PLANET is warming up, and

that human beings are the reason. But don t blame

ME, because I just GOT here.
2

If the world IS getting hotter, I just hope it

doesn t happen too FAST. Because if things keep up

at THIS rate, I ll be riding a camel to high school.

They say the ice caps are melting and the sea is

rising, so I ve been trying to convince Mom and

Dad to buy a house higher up on our hill. But

they just don t seem all that concerned.
3

It kind of makes me nervous that I m the only

one in my family worried about this stuff. Because

if we don t do something about the situation

SOON , we re gonna wish we DID .

It s not just the rising sea levels I m nervous

about. Those ice caps have been around for millions

of years, and there could be things buried inside

of them that should STAY that way.
4

I saw a movie about a caveman who got frozen in

ice, and when it melted thousands of years later

he was still ALIVE . I don t know if that kind

of thing could actually happen in real life, but if

there ARE unfrozen cavemen walking around these

days, the night janitor at my school might be one

of them.

If we DO figure a way out of this climate

mess, it s probably gonna be someone from MY

generation who solves it. That s why I m always

nice to the SMART kids, because THEY RE

the

ones who are gonna save our butts.
5

Whatever the answer is, I guarantee you

TECHNOLOGY is gonna be the key.

Grown-ups are always saying that too much

technology is BAD for kids, but I say the more

the BETTER .

In fact, as soon as I can afford one of those

high-tech toilets that learns all your habits, I m

gonna get the most expensive model.

Some people worry that one day we ll lose control of

our technology and robots will take OVER .

Well, if that happens, I m gonna make sure I m

on THEIR side.
6

I ve actually been PREPARING for when the

robots take over by sucking up to the appliances

in my house.

So when there s a giant robot

human war in the

future, I ll be patting myself on the back for

thinking ahead.
7

My brother Rodrick says that in the future,

people will have robot body parts, and we ll all be

CYBORGS .

Well, I hope I don t have to wait too long for

that, because if I could buy myself a pair of

robot legs, I could get a half hour of extra sleep

each morning.

I guess we don t really know what s gonna happen

in the future. And you could drive yourself CRAZY

worrying about it.

Even if we solve all the problems we have right

now, some NEW thing will come along, and then

we ll have to deal with THAT .
8

I ve read that s what happened with the

DINOSAURS . They were riding high for

a couple hundred million years, and then an

asteroid came and wiped them out.

What s really crazy is that cockroaches were around

back then, and somehow THEY survived. And

they ll probably be here long after we re gone, too.

Personally, I think cockroaches are disgusting. But

they must be doing SOMETHING right.
9

Speaking of SURVIVAL , right now, I m just

trying to get through middle school. And the last

few days haven t been all that great.

Even though it s warm outside, the thermostat at

school still thinks it s WINTER . So the furnace

is on full blast all day, which makes it hard to

concentrate in class.

And it s worse in the CAFETERIA , because there

aren t any windows you can open to get fresh air.
10

The heat has been frying my brain, and I ve been

forgetting when my school assignments are due.

I forgot a really BIG one today, which was my

country project for the International Showcase.

Back in November, everyone had to choose a

country to do a report on. I picked Italy,

because I m a HUGE pizza fan.

But it turns out Italy was a really popular

choice, so my Social Studies teacher had to do a

random drawing to decide who got it. And she

chose Dennis Tracton, which isn t fair because he s

lactose intolerant and can t even eat cheese.

So the teacher assigned me Malta, which I didn t

even know was a country.
11

Anyway, that was two months back, and I didn t

give my country project a second thought until

TODAY . And the only reason I remembered

was because when I got to school, everybody was

wearing weird clothes.

I probably should ve realized it was International

Showcase day when my friend Rowley came by to

get me for school wearing a crazy getup. But he s

ALWAYS doing strange stuff, so I barely even

noticed.
12

In homeroom, I took a look at Rowley s project

to see how much work was involved, and that s

when I started to panic.

His report looked like it took a TON of time, and

it was pretty obvious his parents helped him with

it. Of course Rowley had actually BEEN to the

country he got assigned, so I m sure that made it

a lot EASIER for him.

I asked Rowley to be a pal and switch countries

with me, but he s kind of selfish, so he wouldn t

go for it. That meant I was on my own, and I

only had a few hours to do my whole project from

SCRATCH . And I didn t know WHERE I was

gonna find a tri-fold this late in the game.
13

That s when I remembered that I had a tri-fold in

my LOCKER . I had started my country project

the day after it was assigned so I could get ahead

of things for once. But when I pulled it out to see

how FAR I d gotten, I was pretty disappointed.

This project was 50% of my Social Studies grade,

so I was pretty desperate. I tried getting help

from my CLASSMATES , but all THAT did was

remind me I need to get some smarter friends.
14

I stayed indoors for recess to work on my

project. I didn t have time to go down to the

library for research, so I had to do a lot of

GUESSING . The only thing I felt pretty sure

about was that Malta was near Russia, but I was

pretty shaky on everything ELSE .

Once I finished filling out my tri-fold, I started

working on the OTHER stuff.

We were supposed to wear our country s traditional

dress for the International Showcase, so on the

way to lunch I picked out some clothes from the

Lost and Found in front of the principal s office.
15

Luckily, there were a few decent items in the

box, and I put together an outfit that looked

pretty convincing.

Everyone was supposed to bring in a traditional

MEAL , too. At lunch, I bought as many items as

I could afford, and threw something together that

seemed like it might ve come from another country.
16

The International Showcase was during the last

period, and when I set up my project in the gym,

I was actually feeling pretty good about things.

But I wish I d gotten assigned a country where

they wore lighter clothes, because the furnace was

still on full blast.

The heat was getting to some OTHER kids, too,

and tempers were starting to flare. At one point,

Brazil and Bulgaria got in a fight over table

space, and a teacher had to come break it up.
17

Kids came in from the elementary school to check

out our projects and ask questions. But all I had

to do to get them to move along was to pretend

I only spoke Maltese.

After that, the PARENTS started to arrive.

Luckily, MINE couldn t come, because Dad was

at work and Mom was at her college. But some

kid in my grade has a mom and dad who are

actually FROM Malta, which was really bad luck

for ME .
18

I thought they were gonna report me to my

teacher, and I was ready to make a run for it.

But then something happened that got me off

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