Kinney, however, is just her ticket. Not only is his series hero, Greg Heffley, a middle-school everyman, forever waiting for his growth spurt as he's surrounded by "gorilla" classmates "who need ...

Kinney’s “secret sauce” of chronicling seventh-grader Greg Heffley’s awkward, hilarious, and highly-relatable middle school life, it turned out, became wildly popular with young readers.

Every school-aged child knows Greg Heffley. Since 2007, when the first “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book was released, author Jeff Kinney has told the adventures of middle school student Greg ...

Kinney writes the incredibly successful series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, about smart-mouthed middle-schooler Greg Heffley ... this object of desire at their school, and they all seem to have a ...

Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s ...

In the new book, Greg finds an old video camera in the basement ... when Connelly’s The Crossing landed at No. 2 and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School out-muscled him to debut at No. 1 on ...

The good will generated by the original film, which was also based on Jeff Kinney’s series of animated novels about middle-school life ... diarist — pre-teen Greg Heffley, who maintains ...