Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

 'The Last Straw" is the 3rd installment of Jeff Kinney's book series, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". This book starts out with it being New Year and Greg is not having luck coming up with resolutions for himself. He decides that he is going to have the resolution to help others to accomplish their resolutions! I remember the feeling of being a kid and not really thinking of any resolutions, I remember it was easy to come up with simple things but bigger picture ideas were not easy!
I had forgotten about a very funny part of this book. When Greg's mom warns Greg to stop eating the snacks for his packed lunch, Greg is shocked! He had not been eating them and he is guessing that his older brother Rodrick is the one eating all his snacks. Greg comes up with a plan to hide in the laundry basket of the laundry room and to wait it out and see who is eating his lunch snacks. He didn't think about the fact that the laundry was warm and sure enough Greg falls asleep in the laundry. Greg awakes to the sound of cracking wrappers and he jumps up to confront whoever is eating his snacks. It was actually Greg's dad! This is very relatable to me because my dad is a snack person and he always goes and eats snacks that aren't his. I really related to these books because they always had a lot in common with my life.
Another moment in the book I could relate to was when Greg was worried about his Mom seeing his report card. He tried his best to make sure that he would intercept the Grade card in the mail but he was not able to get it one day and his Mom saw his grades. Greg was failing almost all of his classes. He blamed it on the fact that he was walking to school and that was making him tired and he was falling asleep in his classes because of it. I can totally relate to not wanting my parents to see my grade because in the 7th and 8th grade I didn't always do as well as I could have. I would suggest that Greg needs to work to improve his grades rather than pointing fingers!
I really love the Diary of the Wimpy kid books. I think that this book can really help any kid that doesn't like to read. I remember not wanting to read as a kid but as I got older I always found myself very interested in this book series.