Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 14)

The Heffley family's house undergoes a disastrous attempt at home improvement. When Great Aunt Reba dies, she leaves some money to the family. Greg's mom calls a family meeting to determine what to do with their share, proposing home improvements and then overruling the family's cartoonish wish lists and instead pushing for an addition to the kitchen. Before bringing in the construction crew, the Heffleys attempt to do minor maintenance and repairs themselves--during which Greg fails at the work in various slapstick scenes. Once the professionals are brought in, the problems keep getting worse: angry neighbors, terrifying problems in walls, and--most serious--civil permitting issues that put the kibosh on what work's been done. Left with only enough inheritance to patch and repair the exterior of the house--and with the school's dismal standardized test scores as a final straw--Greg's mom steers the family toward moving, opening up house-hunting and house-selling storylines (and devastating loyal Rowley, who doesn't want to lose his best friend). While Greg's positive about the move, he's not completely uncaring about Rowley's action. (And of course, Greg himself is not as unaffected as he wishes.) The gags include effectively placed callbacks to seemingly incidental events (the "stress lizard" brought in on testing day is particularly funny) and a lampoon of after-school-special-style problem books. Just when it seems that the Heffleys really will move, a new sequence of chaotic trouble and property destruction heralds a return to the status quo. Whew. Readers can still rely on this series to bring laughs. (Graphic/fiction hybrid. 8-12)

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Maira - OMG!! This book is just amaze!! Love it! First thought this was fake........ Nice, Gregory hefflely's house was just about to Change into an amazing dream house but.... Do you think that's possible.?? First they were doing house improvements....... Then it got harder and harder for them to renovate, wait.... Are u guessing where they got the money?? Well their great aunt rita passed away so they got her inheritence....... So yeah anyways they stoped the improvements, and thought to take a new house but some kind of shifter came one week before and showed their mom a document that she had signed for shifting to the other house the present day....... Obviously they couldn't pack up all their stuff in 1 day and move away so they didn't shift!!........... Hey! I just saved your money and told u the whole story........ Who needs the book now??