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Synopsis
School holidays have begun, the two
most popular friends in his school and want to be popular, Greg Heffley
(Zachary Gordon) and Rowley Jefferson (Robert Capron) spend their summer
holidays with all their favorite activities. Greg hopes to be able to use his
vacation time to sit in front of the TV all day playing Video Games, but not
that easy, Greg's father, Frank (Steve Zahn) certainly does not agree ... try
to avoid messengers from the father with the most hateful activities, action
based even the lies Greg did, and the Holiday began ......
Summary
The book starts with Greg
Heffley describing how he is more of an "indoor person", and how he
will spend his summer vacation playing video games in the dark; unfortunately,
his mother stops him, saying that he has better things to do. Money is tight
this year and Greg can't go to the beach. Greg and his friend Rowley go to
Rowley's country club after school closes for the summer, but after a few
weeks, Greg is not invited to return because he complains about even the
smallest things, much to his disappointment. Greg doesn't want to go to the
town pool wih his mother and little brother because of the shower area he has
to walk through to get to the pool.
When Rowley's father arrive at
the Heffley residence, he informs Greg's mother that Greg and Rowley racked up
a bill for $83 worth of fruit smoothies at the country club. Both boys decline
to pay, saying they were unaware they would be charged and it would be unfair
to do so, but Greg's mother, Susan and Rowley's father disagree. Greg and
Rowley decide to start a lawn care service called the "V.I.P. Lawn Care
Service". Unfortunately, the job is a fiasco since the boys have never
used anything near to a lawn mower before. He wants to reopen as the V. I. P.
Snow Removal.
During Greg's birthday party,
Susan confiscates all of his birthday money to pay off Mr. Jefferson's smoothie
bill from the country club. Greg also gets a Ladybug, a cell phone that can
only make emergency calls and home calls. Greg, Rodrick, Manny, and his mom go
to the local pet store. Greg gets an angelfish but Rodrick, on the other hand,
gets a pet piranha which he neglects while Manny buys fish food which he later
eats as a snack. After a trip to the water park, Greg finds that the piranha
ate his angelfish while they were gone, upsetting Greg.
When Frank learns at a Fathers'
Day lunch that his father accidentally ran over his dog Nutty when he was
young, and then lied about him running away to a butterfly farm, he leaves his
dad with the bill. He then quickly drops off his family and he gets a new dog
to cope with the loss. The family named him Sweetheart, a.k.a. Sweetie, who
causes people not being able to hear the TV. Greg and his mom meet Rowley's
family at the supermarket, where they are buying groceries for their family
vacation. Rowley's mom invites Greg to the beach, to which his mom agrees,
which ended when Greg accidentally burned Rowley by flicking a rubber band at
his arm.
After this incident, Greg is
afraid that his dad is going to sell him to an orphanage, and he calls the
police with his Ladybug phone. After a long talk with the police, Frank gives
the cops tickets to a baseball game to repay them for their trouble, and it
turns out that Frank was actually giving Sweetie to Grandma. Susan is
disappointed because she brought the tickets for Frank and Greg to spend time
together. After hearing about a video game competition, Greg and Rowley decide
to camp in front of the Game Hut, thinking that's where the competition is
going to be. However, Rowley accidentally injures Greg's hand, forcing Greg to
quit the competition. At the end of the summer, Greg regrets not staying at
home throughout the summer and playing video games. His mother views this as
the "Best Summer Ever", while Greg views it as a horrible summer.
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