Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
By Jeff Kinney
Summary
Greg and Rowley decide to do a lawn care service called the "V.I.P. Lawn Care Service". Unfortunately, the job never works when they have never used a lawn mower before.
Greg's birthday comes, and he wants money. During the party, Susan takes the money to pay off Rowley's dad's smoothie bill from the country club. Greg also gets a Ladybug, a cell phone that can only make emergency calls and home calls.
Greg, Rodrick, and his mom go to the local pet store. Greg gets an angel fish but Rodrick, on the other hand, gets a pet piranha which he doesn't take care of. After a trip to the waterpark, Greg finds that the piranha ate his angelfish while they were gone, upsetting Greg. The Heffleys get a new dog, Sweetie, which causes many problems for Greg's summer.Greg and his mom meet Rowley's family in a supermarket. Rowley's mom invites Greg to the beach,which his mom agrees to, with disastrous results. Greg is afraid that his dad is going to sell him to an orphanage, and he calls the police with his Ladybug phone. After a long talk with the police, Frank gives the cops the tickets for a baseball game, and it turns out that Frank was giving Sweetie to Gramma.
After losing a "video game tournament" to Rowley, Greg is upset, but sees pictures of the summer that mom took and rethinks his summer. Perhaps all he need was a little nudge in the world after the summer adventure. Greg is now happy on how this crazy summer ended.