Dog Days: Book 4 in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series
by Jeff Kinney

Summary

Dog Days: Book 4 in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series is the first Wimpy Book that gets out of school. In book four, it's summer vacation, the weather's great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where's Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn. Greg, a self-confessed "indoor person," is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg's mom has a different vision for an ideal summer...one packed with outdoor activities and "family togetherness."

Whose vision will win out? Or will a new addition to the Heffley family change everything?

With big, friendly font, fast action, middle-school humor, and a cartoon on every page, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid illustrated-novel series has become a best-selling phenomenon.

Jeff Kinney says he wrote these books as a lark, just for fun. The wimpy kid is no role model, he warns. But now he gets email after email from parents of reluctant readers saying: this is the first book my son has ever made it through...thank you for turning the light on for my child.

Praise for the Wimpy Kid Series

"One of the most successful children's series ever published" — Washington Post

"Has taken the word 'reluctant' out of 'reluctant readers.'" — USA Today

"Genre-busting series ... spot-on humor and winning formula." — Publishers Weekly starred review

About the Author

Author Jeff Kinney loves to laugh, and you will too when you read the Wimpy Kid Series. "I wanted to write a story about all the funny parts of growing up, and none of the serious parts," Jeff writes on his website. "I decided to write a book about what it's really like to be a kid, or at least what it was like for me."