The Ugly Truth

Title: The Ugly Truth

Author: Jeff Kinney

ISBN: 9780810984912

Series: the Fifth Book of Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Summary
It is a diary of Gregg Heffley. Gregg had a big fight with his 'ex-best-friend,' Rowley Jeffson during summer time. He hoped that Rowley could came back to him first, so they can be best-friend again. It never happens because Rowley's parents have found a replacement for Rowley. Gregg has tried to find a best-friend replacement too, but it is being unsuccessful. There is a lot of things happen during the school year. Like all other students trying the grab attention of others, Gregg tried different thing, such as use a textbook that was used by a popular boy once and tryout for audition for an ice cream TV ads. Gregg family had a big change, his mother, Susan, decide to go school. In other words, Susan will not be around the house when Gregg came back from school, and he has to share some house works. This is a nightmare for Gregg.

Review
As the previous books in the series, the Ugly Truth is revealed some small details of a students daily life. Tweens will or had experience some incidents the Gregg experienced in the story. Incidents such as having the first pimple, mother will not around he or she all the times, having a fight with best-friend and do not know how to handle it, and so on will happen to all tweens. Story was written and illustrated is a lively way the readers will be attracted. Readers will laugh because of how the humor is represented. Overall, I like the story and how I can related to the story, but there one thing I dislike. It is that some behaviors of the characters might have bad influence to the readers.