At the beginning of this book, Greg Heffley thinks that he and his family are not meant to be with each other. He also loses his best friend Rowley because he found a girlfriend named Abigail. Greg is bored and upset because he doesn't have any friends and nothing to do. He tries to get Rowley back as a friend a few times but it doesn't work. The teachers at school turn the Bully Report Station into a Find a Friend Station. Greg keeps going to the new station to see if he can find any new friends but no one recognizes him. Then a teacher Mr. Nern feels sorry for him, and plays at recess with Greg. Greg feels embarrassed by playing with a teacher and really just wants his friend back. At the end of the book, Abigail breaks up with Rowley and goes back to her old boyfriend. Finally Greg's luck gets better and he and Rowley can be friends again. I could really sympathize with Greg in this book because it would be really awful to lose your best friend and have to play with a teacher. My favorite part of this book was when Greg and Rowley finally became friends again because they have a lot of fun together.

Stink is frustrated! He found out that Pluto isn't a planet anymore, and Pluto is his Favorite planet. He meets a new friend named Skunk who is also very upset about this. Riley Rottenberger is really happy that Pluto got thrown out of the solar system and keeps bothering Stink and Skunk about it. They start to argue a bunch in class about who is right. The teacher catches them and decides that they should hold a vote to see if Pluto should still be a planet or not. They make t-shirts and signs and a ton of stuff to get people to vote for them. Stink and Skunk win the vote! In their class Pluto will still be considered a planet and now Riley Rottenberger is the one who is upset! This book was interested because it taught you a lot about the solar system. Before reading this book, I didn't know that there are 3 dwarf planets in the solar system, and one of them is Pluto. I would say Jupiter is my favorite planet but mostly because I think it has a cool name.

Stink, Webster, and Sophie are collecting cereal boxes to make the Great Wall of China. As they are making it they hear some weird noises inside the boxes. Stink opens one up and finds 3 guinea pigs jumping around. They go to the pet shop and bring the guinea pigs with them. The pet shop owner asks them to help him get all the runaway guinea pigs that are running around the store. The collect 101 guinea pigs! They go on a road trip across the country to sell the guinea pigs. Stink has to give up his favorite guinea pig to a kid. When they get back home, Stink finds that same guinea pig in his backpack. He thinks it snuck in they weren't looking. He gets to keep this one guinea pig as a pet! I think it would be cool to take a road trip all over the country, especially if I could sell guinea pigs and make money! I would take my friends Jacob and Cash with me to make it super awesome.

Stink, Webster, and Sophie are collecting cereal boxes to make the Great Wall of China. As they are making it they hear some weird noises inside the boxes. Stink opens one up and finds 3 guinea pigs jumping around. They go to the pet shop and bring the guinea pigs with them. The pet shop owner asks them to help him get all the runaway guinea pigs that are running around the store. The collect 101 guinea pigs! They go on a road trip across the country to sell the guinea pigs. Stink has to give up his favorite guinea pig to a kid. When they get back home, Stink finds that same guinea pig in his backpack. He thinks it snuck in they weren't looking. He gets to keep this one guinea pig as a pet! I think it would be cool to take a road trip all over the country, especially if I could sell guinea pigs and make money! I would take my friends Jacob and Cash with me to make it super awesome.

Mr. Hoppy is in love with the lady that lives on the floor below him named Mrs. Silver, but Mrs. Silver is in love with her tortoise named Alfie. Mrs. Silver wants Alfie to grow bigger. Mr. Hoppy is too embarrassed to tell Mrs. Silver that he loves her. He buys a bunch of tortoises from the pet shop and has them at his house. He is an engineer and works in a bus garage. He makes a tortoise catcher there that has two claws, a sting, and a handle. When you pull the handle, the claws close and catch the tortoise. He sends Mrs. Silver a letter that he says is in tortoise language (just regular words spelled backwards) and he tells her to read this to Alfie every day. When she is at work, he grabs Alfie and replaces him with a bigger tortoise. He does this once a week and keeps replacing the old tortoise with a bigger one. Mrs. Silver starts yelling one day and said that Alfie got so big that he doesn't fit in his little house anymore. Mr. Hoppy gives her a new poem to read to the tortoise to help it get smaller. She says the poem before she goes to work each day, and then Mr. Hoppy switches the tortoise out with a smaller one. Mrs. Silver calls him down to show him the tortoise fits in its house again. Mr. Hoppy invites Mrs. Silver in to his house for a cup of tea. Then he returns all the tortoises back to the pet shop. Mr. Hoppy and Mrs. Silver end up getting married! At the very end of the book, the real tortorise Alfie got sold to someone else, but Mrs. Silver never noticed. I thought that Mr. Hoppy's tortoise catcher was really cool and I liked how he got Mrs. Silver to notice him. This book got me interested in creating an invention of my own!

Stink hears that a new book in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series is coming out. His town is having a Midnight Zombie Walk (really at 10pm) to celebrate the book coming out. Stink took one of his puppets named Charlie and painted him to look like a zombie. He uses this as a model for the costume he wants make for the Zombie Walk. He cuts up some clothes and uses face paint that he steals from his sister Judy. He lets his friends Sophie and Webster use the face paint too. Stink and his friends raise money so that they can buy the new book. They are able to buy the book and go to the Midnight Zombie Walk. After they all read the new book their school reaches their goal of reading one million minutes together! I thought this book was kind of scary in parts when they talked about zombies and creepy and spooky things. I like the Stink Moody books, but I am not sure I would want to read the Nightmare on Zombie Street series!