• Home
• Catalog & Other Resources
• Children's Page
• Teen Scene
• Readers Advisory or What to Read Next
• Museum Passes
• Services
• Your Library Account
• Staff and Policies
• Friends of the Library
• Local History

Search the Catalog:

• Mango Languages - New!
• Magill's Medical Guide
• Chilton's Auto Repair
• HeritageQuest
• Literary Reference Center
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction - New!
• Novelist
• ReferenceUSA
• Swampscott Reporter

Diary of a Wimpy Kid read-alikes

If you are a fan of Greg Heffley here are some other books you might enjoy. Titles with an asterisk are the first volume in a series.

• Balliett, Blue – Chasing Vermeer
• *Birdsall, Jeanne – The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
• Birdseye, Tom – Attack of the mutant underwear
• *Boniface, William – The hero revealed
• Clements, Andrew – Room one : a mystery or two
• Clements, Andrew – Frindle
• Clements, Andrew – Lunch money
• Clements, Andrew – The janitor’s boy
• Clements, Andrew – No talking
• Gantos, Jack – Heads or tails : stories from the sixth grade
• *Gutman, Dan – My weird school daze!
• Gutman, Dan – The Get Rich Quick Club
• Gutman, Dan – The homework machine
• Holm, Jennifer L – Middle school is worse than meatloaf : a year told through stuff
• Korman, Gordon – Schooled
• Korman, Gordon – Swindle
• Lupica, Mike – The big field
• Mazer, Anne – Every cloud has a silver lining
• *McDonald, Megan – Stink : the incredible shrinking kid
• Paulsen, Gary – Lawn boy
• *Pennypacker, Sara – Clementine
• *Pilkey, Dav – The adventures of Captain Underpants : an epic novel
• *Pilkey, Dav – Ricky Ricotta’s mighty robot : the first adventure novel
• *Scieszka, Jon – Knights of the kitchen table
• Selznick, Brian – The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures
• *Stewart, Trenton Lee – The mysterious Benedict Society
• *Winkler, Henry – Niagara Falls, or does it?
• Yep, Laurence – Cockroach cooties