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