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| Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown | |
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The book'due south official cover | |
| Author | Jeff Kinney |
| Publisher | Abram Books (Amulet Books) |
| Release Engagement | October 30th, 2018 |
| Pages | 217 |
| Preceded by | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway |
| Followed Past | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Brawl (chronologically) |
| Colour | Dark Purple Gradient (Spine: Alternate colors of Dark Imperial and Sky Blue) |
| Book Number | xiii |
Diary of a Wimpy Child: The Meltdown is the thirteenth volume in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The book was released on October 30th, 2018. The embrace features Greg every bit a melting snowman with a scarf. The title has icicle-styled text.
Contents
- ane Chief Characters
- 2 Synopsis
- iii Plot
- 3.ane Jan
- three.2 February
- 4 Trivia
- 4.1 Goofs/Errors
- 5 Preview
- 6 Gallery
- seven Videos
- 8 References
Main Characters
- Greg Heffley
- Safety Patrol (Main Antagonist Grouping)
- Rowley Jefferson
- Manny Heffley
- Rodrick Heffley
- Susan Heffley
- Frank Heffley
Synopsis
When the schools become close down because of a snowy twenty-four hour period, the neighborhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Some rival groups fight over territory, Some rival groups build massive snow forts, and some rival groups stage epic snowball fights. In the cross-hairs are Greg Heffley and his trusty-true to the end-all-time friend, Rowley Jefferson.
Information technology's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate confronting alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighborhood meltdown. When the snowfall clears, will Greg and Rowley emerge as heroes? Or will they even survive to run across another solar day? [1]
Plot
January
The story starts off with Greg saying how everybody is outside enjoying the warm weather except him, every bit information technology is January, normally the middle of winter. Greg then says that the whole planet is warming up, and humans are to blame. However, as he says that he shouldn't be one to point fingers to, as he merely recently got onto Planet Earth (being born). He then hopes that information technology doesn't warm up too fast, or he would accept to ride a camel to high school. He then says he heard that the water ice caps are melting and the bounding main level is rising. Due to his fear, he's tried to convince his parents to buy a business firm above on their hill so that they can avert the water for longer, just his parents aren't also concerned, further increasing Greg'southward worry, and wishing that his parents would do something. Nonetheless, the rise sea level isn't the only thing on Greg'due south listen, as there could be prehistoric animals preserved in the ice caps, and since they are melting, they may end up roaming the globe one time over again. Greg then says that he saw a moving-picture show about a caveman that got frozen in ice, and thousands of years subsequently, when the ice melted, he was nevertheless alive. Greg doesn't know if that could happen in existent life and thinks his night janitor is one of them.
Greg has to participate in International Showcase Calendar week as a History project. Back in November, when there was an International Showcase, he wanted to be assigned to Italy, though he didn't get it because information technology has been voted a lot. After a random draw by his teacher, it was given to the lactose-intolerant Dennis Tracton. Equally a result, Greg did his project on Malta. Nevertheless, he forgot all about information technology and has at present to brand information technology for the following day. Since Rowley refused to switch with him, Greg says that he was on his own and hoped his project will exist fine.
In order to button curious students away, he pretended to only speak Maltese. (accidentally speaking Spanish instead). However, a child in his grade whose parents are from Malta takes offense to Greg'south misrepresentation of their land. Fortunately for him, the rivalry betwixt Brazil and Republic of bulgaria flares upwardly again, and the bong rings, dismissing school.
However, the situation worsens when Susan receives a letter of the alphabet that Greg has to redo his entire project. To ensure he makes up his project, she forbids him for screens until his work is finished. Greg predicts this to be merely before the weekends, just he says that it won't matter because Susan forbids him from screens on the weekends as well every bit Rodrick and Manny, a system designed by Susan to better the sons' social understanding between each other, though they all concord to misbehave on the weekends in order to testify to Susan that her "Screen-Free Weekends" aren't working.
Greg likewise says that his mom says that she wants him to make some new friends. But with the exception of Rowley, he has no risk to befriend another child. Sometimes, he even has to walk in front end of Fregley's house, which is between his and Rowley's, something very difficult for him.
Greg then explains that the other kids in his street aren't expert people for him to befriend, but the worst are the ones who live in Lower Surrey Street, as their half is flat, while Greg lives in Upper Surrey Street, which is on a slant. The kids at the bottom of the hill get to play in the streets all year and whenever someone tries to get their ball back or someone gets to the lesser of the hill, the lower street kids use their spots equipment. In the winter nevertheless, whenever the lower street kids try to go sledding downward the hill, Greg and the upper loma kids pelt them with snowballs as payback. The ii halves can't stand one another and, if one'southward family moves to a different part of the town, that person volition be stuck within all year circular, since their new neighbors volition nonetheless consider them office of the other squad and the person's original side will think of them every bit a traitor for moving, a fate that Trevor Nix got when he moved downwardly the hill. Despite the war between the kids, the adults actually get along merely fine with each other, much to the kids annoyance.
Greg then talks about the squealer, which was left at a kennel during their Christmas holiday, and when it gets mad about not going with them, Frank sends it to obedience school, but the person who runs the place calls him telling him the pig escaped. Greg's family unit puts upwardly posters to notice it.
Greg wonders if a human being or a pig can hibernate, finding temporary evidence in The Mingos, who don't prove up in the winter. Because of this, Greg says that if they're Non hibernating all winter, nobody knows what they're doing.
Greg then reminisces about the Safety Patrol, as he enjoyed it because of his admission to hot chocolate. Still, he got kicked out of Prophylactic Patrol, so he can't have any. E'er since then, he has been filling a thermos with hot chocolate to recreate the feeling. He likewise explains how dirty his neighbors are. When he is sick, he receives some cherry-red lozenges for his pharynx which makes him popular among girls. However, the boys suspension into his locker to steal them for themselves.
Considering of the common cold, Greg and Rowley try to find a place where they could warm up. They finally manage to hide at Gramma'due south place while she is on vacation, but while they are drying their apparel off, they hear someone coming down into the basement and they arm themselves, thinking it's a burglar, simply they end up almost attacking Greg'south female parent with a toilet plunger and a handbag.
To Greg's surprise, Susan isn't mad at him at all, even congratulating him for "using his imagination" rather than screens. Greg wishes she'd grounded him instead, not knowing what she thought they were doing.
February
Greg explains that the Rubber Patrol is very strict on boys and reports anyone who dares to throw a snowball during a schoolhouse day. They also permit girls to walk on the road simply don't allow boys to do it.
Greg says that he has no qualms about snitching; in improver, due to the snow, students were tracking h2o into the school, resulting in their shoes being held in the headmaster's office. After a few kids started a fight with their wet socks, the teachers started ordering the kids to become barefoot, non improving the situation.
The next day, Greg tries vainly to invent a new way to walk in the snow, using pizza boxes with his shoes duct-taped to them after declining to warm up his wintertime boots, which end up melting into the bricks of the fireplace. Nevertheless, his new idea fails, as he left leftover pizza in the boxes, causing the neighborhood dogs to attack. He also discovers that the janitor couldn't stand the sock smell and opens the windows to let some fresh air in, but forgot to close the windows at the terminate of his shift. Due to this, indoor temperatures drop to below freezing.
Because of this, the students try to keep warm any way they can, with ane person even using a costume of a lion that was fabricated for the school play. The principal then decides to dismiss school early after kids start eating hoards of nutrient, even eating bugs from the Science Off-white, thinking that they were going to be snowed in overnight. Since Rowley and Greg have to walk on their fashion dwelling, they decide to the omnibus for Whirley Street. At first, they sit in at that place without being discovered until someone at the back throws a snowball and almost crashes the bus. This prompts the bus driver to terminate the bus and refuse to start information technology once again until the perpetrator admits they did it, going every bit far as to read a book for a solid hour. Greg looks in the dorsum of the passenger vehicle, hearing some kids whispering, notwithstanding, an viii-grader realizes he isn't from Whirley Street, and all the kids on the charabanc blamed information technology on Greg, with the motorbus driver forcing him and Rowley to get off at once.
A few Whirley Street kids outset running later on Greg and Rowley, having believed the other kids on the motorbus lying about him throwing the snowball. They then determine to run from them, leading them into the forest.
Greg and Rowley are forced to run in the wood, where a mythical creature is known as the "Goat human being" exists. Greg sees a calorie-free coming from a broken car, only he and Rowley so realize they're in the Mingos' army camp as Greg finds Meckley Mingo's belt buckle. After getting close to a car, the paw puppet that Greg wears in place of a glove gets stuck on the door handle of the car, resulting in Greg abandoning him because of some unknown figures rise from the cars, which Greg and Rowley believe are the Mingo kids. He and Rowley and so dash out of the woods, where Frank nigh runs them over.
The adjacent day, Greg has the house for himself, since Manny is at plant nursery, Rodrick is sleeping, and his parents are gone. Just fiddling does he know is Susan planned some chores for him by hiding the batteries in the TV remote effectually the firm, just Greg institute a way to go around it by watching in Mom and Dad'south room'southward Boob tube, which only uses one bombardment. He is unable to terminate all of them and gets paranoid later on Susan calls him. A group of girls effort and extort money out of him in exchange for immigration his driveway, resulting in his parents telling him off until 8 o'clock, at which indicate, Rodrick wakes up to start his twenty-four hours.
The adjacent mean solar day, Susan insists that Greg spends the whole weekend out in the snow to play similar in the erstwhile days, even calling Rowley's father and advising him to do the aforementioned to forbid him from hiding in there. Without any option, Greg and Rowley build an igloo without a hole, which is quickly demolished past the neighboring kids. Frank tells them that the neighborhood kids have declared war and Greg and Rowley must fight back to reclaim their territory, and so both boys build another fort but discover that almost every kid in town was inspired by their idea. After the Lower Street Kids are caught sledding down their colina, they all team up and build a double-layered wall across the road to stop them. After a raging battle, the lower kids send Trevor Zippo over to split the hill kids up with decoys. After existence double-crossed by Trevor, the Upper Surrey Street Kids snowfall wall gets demolished.
Then they hear the Safe Patrol, who came for revenge subsequently being pelted with snowballs during the weekends. This results in the battle turning into the Surrey Street Kids (on both ends) versus the Safe Patrol, just some girls on Surrey Street switch sides, throwing the battle into confusion. The Whirley Street kids slide on the hill and join the battle. Then all the kids hear a horn going off, with Greg and Rowley realizing that information technology is the Mingo kids, looking like they woke upwardly from a iii-month nap. Greg realizes that he had Meckley'south buckle in his pocket without realizing information technology, perchance revealing that Meckley Mingo, who has Greg's hand puppet from before speared on a pole, is after him. Since the kids detest the Mingo clan more than everyone else, they turn to fight them, catapulting the battle into a free-for-all. Greg decides he has had enough, and he and Rowley hibernate, worried that they won't survive. Then the ground shakes, though it turns out to exist the snowplow driver, plowing through all the snow and catastrophe the battle.
After the war, Greg can't call back what they started fighting over in the kickoff place, and the weather drastically warms. At that place is still snow on the basis, and so Mitchell Pickett uses a snowmobile he bought with all the coin he made selling snow supplies. Trevor Aught gets accepted in Lower Surrey Street for his office in demolishing the Upper Surrey Street kid'south snow wall. Greg has heard that Trevor has been asked to play with the lower street kids. Greg only hopes that everyone will be grateful to him if he tin make a good strategy that could allow homo people to live with robots. Greg says he's glad that there are people similar the hero type out there, only the world needs guys similar him too. Greg says because if homo beings are even so around 500 meg years from now, information technology's gonna be thanks to Greg Heffley's of the globe who figured out a fashion to survive.
Trivia
- When Greg talks well-nigh their Christmas holiday, on page 39, he is referring to their trip to Isla de Corales in The Getaway.
- This is the 3rd volume to not have the discussion "Diary" in xanthous. The first two books are Dog Days and Hard Luck.
- However, this is the offset odd-numbered volume to not have the word "Diary" in yellow.
- That is the 2nd book has the cover imperial, the first being The Ugly Truth
- This is the get-go volume to utilise two dissimilar shades of one colour. In the pinnacle half of the book, it is colored Blue-ish Night Purple. While on the lesser one-half of the book, it is colored Red-ish Night Purple.
- All the same, the overall color of the volume is still Night Royal, anyway.
- This is the first fourth dimension the subtitle is 3D.
- This is the third time the spine uses these following two colors and they are Dark Imperial and Truthful Blue. The other two books are Double Down which uses these following two colors: Red-Orange and Yellow and The Getaway which uses these following two colors: Azure and Apple tree Green.
- Ironically, those books are in chronological order.
- This is the fourth book to include a reptile-peel blueprint.
- This is too the 3rd book to include the new Amulet logo.
- This is the sixth book to feature Greg's trademark frown. The others were: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, Domestic dog Days, The Ugly Truth, Sometime Schoolhouse, and The Getaway.
- In that location are references and parts of the book taken from Jeff Kinney'south past books before The Meltdown, and all of them are listed here.
- The Safety Patrols reappeared since Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and information technology turns out it is now girls simply, and the boys are kicked off because they decided to quit or break the rules.
- The Mingos and Meckley reappeared since Hard Luck, and it shows that they hibernate during the winter. Fregley also appears since Difficult Luck as well.
- Apartment Stanley is mentioned again since The Long Haul.
- The mention of the pig escaping considering he was not happy near being excluded from the trip to Isla de Corales, so after misbehaving, Frank sends it to obedience school, and escaped.
- 1 of Fregley's quotes was mentioned in the Practise-Information technology-Yourself book.
- With Fregley being every bit a snowman and Manny running away, these were in the Poptropica Wimpy Wonderland island.
- This is the third book to have a resemblance to the story on the cover, after Canis familiaris Days. Every bit purple and blue are "absurd colors".
- In the Britain variant of The Meltdown, the xiii on its spine is replaced with its picture show for the front end cover. (Greg as a snowman.)
- This is the sixth volume to take place in winter. The first five books are Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules, The Third Wheel, Cabin Fever, and The Getaway.
- This book marks the second time the Safety Patrol is seen. The system hasn't been seen or mentioned since the first book.
- It'due south notwithstanding unknown why Rowley was kicked out (or if he quit).
- This is the 3rd time Greg screwed up a project without enquiry.
- Fregley returns in this book. He hasn't appeared since Hard Luck.
- On folio 164, Rowley and Greg come up up with a name for their clan. Rowley suggests "Hufflepuff" which is a reference to the Harry Potter Hogwarts house, but Greg says he wants a more original name.
- Flat Stanley is mentioned on page 141. Greg says that he wants a TV on his ceiling, just he wants it installed by someone who knows what they're doing so he won't be "the next Apartment Stanley."
- This besides the 2nd fourth dimension Flat Stanley is mentioned. The offset was from The Long Haul.
- This is one of few books in which Rodrick and Manny accept much shorter roles and the 2nd book later on The Third Wheel in which except flashbacks, Rodrick does not neat Greg.
- Greg mentions on page 215 that the sus scrofa is probably "somewhere warm by now, having the time of his life." This probably means the hog will probably not return in Book 14, merely it is unknown yet.
- 802 words are written in all uppercase letters in this book.
- This is the offset volume in the series to have pages with only drawings on them.
- Fregley's line, "Betcha I tin can find your 'tickle spot!'" was get-go used in his section in The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book.
- This is the first book to not have a specific primary antagonist. She only appeared on ane folio.
- This is the sixth book to take ii months each, books like Old School, Cabin Fever, and The Tertiary Wheel.
- On page 57, when they're playing Museum, a boy can be seen doing a gesture resembling the 'dab'.
- This is the kickoff and so far only time all iii Heffley brothers agree on something. (their dislike of Screen-Free Weekends).
- This book reveals that at that place's a kid in Greg's grade at Westmore Middle Schoolhouse whose parents are originally from the country of Malta.
- When Greg mentions that Marcus Marconi's flag was from his dads sub shop that went out of business in folio 174, yous tin can come across the sub shop with the airtight sign at page 39 where Greg's family posts missing signs around the town.
- This has the largest drawing to be seen in the entire serial, in taking over pages 208 and 209 altogether.
- This is the merely book to have a full two-folio drawing.
- The subtitle "The Meltdown" may be a reference to the second Water ice Age movie which also had this subtitle with the full name being Ice Age: The Meltdown.
Goofs/Errors
- On page ix, Greg says "Speaking of survival.", but in the sneak peek, it says "Speaking of unusually hot weather"
- This could've been a modify, and besides mean that Kinney was trying to drag in a continuity reference from The Getaway.
- Sweetie is shown to be non overweight, despite him beingness overweight in past books due to being fed too much by Gramma, every bit shown in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck. Still, information technology is possible he probably lost weight and got normal over again.
- On the page where the kids are all in the snowball fight, Latricia Hooks has a different look.
- However, Greg doesn't know this and did mention he was but assuming.
- There is a kid all the way in the back on page 122 with a blackness jacket; withal, on the next page, he is wearing a white jacket.
- When Greg talks about how last year, he wants to go to school fast by using a sled and dogs to his mom and dad, Greg is much shorter.
- On page 85, it says "pefectly normal" instead of "perfectly normal".
- On page 185, it says that Greg sent Rowley to get some hot chocolate, but a photo on the same page has Rowley in the wall.
Preview
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Gallery
See Diary of a Wimpy Child: The Meltdown/Gallery
Videos
Diary of a Wimpy Kid- Volume 13 Cover and Title Reveal!
The Meltdown - Diary of a Wimpy Child Volume xiii
References
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