No Brainer (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #18) (Volume 18)

I was very excited for this new book to come out. I am a HUGE fan of this series and have been reading it for years. I just finished reading it a few minutes ago (it came in mail yesterday afternoon) and I already am waiting to see what happens to Greg next. I have every single book in the whole series and I care about these characters a lot. I have read most of the books at least five times each.I like the series because Greg is funny and it's sort of funny how no matter what happens, he just rolls with his life. I don't really like that poor Greg never really has a "happy" ending. My mom says it's because the story is told from his perspective.In this book, the school is losing money because the kids are not getting good grades. This sounds crazy, but it can really happen! So, the school decided to give rewards to kids who got higher grades. The robot cleaner in the book reminded me of the grocery store robot in my town. It's cute with its big, googly eyes.Mom Says:Reading has always been a focus in our home. We believe in reading and education and being able to research things on our own. We are teaching this foundation to our children. I spent a couple hours each DAY reading to my kids when they were little. We read the entire Harry Potter series aloud to them in 2021, before bedtime for an hour each night.Reading has always been important. My daughter was not a confident reader six years ago, when she was four and five years old. I got the Wimpy Kid books for her, hoping it would be entertaining enough, and easy enough, to keep her motivated to finish books.Since she read the first few books at age 5 or 6 years old, she has become a VORACIOUS reader. She reads one or two books a day now. She reads chapter books, 200-page books with no pictures in them. She is an excellent reader and I find books all over the house now, in places where she was sequestered away, enjoying a story- and it started with the Wimpy kid series.I've even sat down to read several of the Wimpy books myself. I can finish the books in 30 minutes with my morning coffee and I find myself oftentimes laughing out loud to them. I hope he keeps them light and silly- and we will keep reading them.

Both of my grandsons have read this series and both of them love the books.My olderest grandson even read one when he was in 9th grade because this was his favorite series as a kid.

Funny and encouraging

I enjoyed that this story took place mostly at Greg's middle school and highlighted many problems schools are facing today (book banning, budget cuts, and standardized testing, to name a few). Schools have always had issues to deal with, but since the first book in the Wimpy Kid series came out in 2007, so much has changed and gotten even more complicated. As someone who began teaching in 2011 and left teaching in 2022, I can honestly say that things are not the same. I like that Kinney was able to address this with typical outlandish Wimpy Kid style and humor. If we can't laugh about it, we'll just end up crying about it.

This was a pretty good book to read, but I felt like Greg talked a lot of some events. Nevertheless, it's a book for all ages can enjoy.

Super

I ordered this book for one of my students. I will have to order another copy because it is so popular.

I purchased this for my grandson and he loves it!!!