Diary of a Wimpy Kid – The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney

Reviewed by Bridget

Ratings

Content Ratings based on a 0-5 scale where
0 = no objectionable content and
5 = an excessive or disturbing level of content

Guide to Rating System

LANGUAGE

VIOLENCE

SEXUAL CONTENT

ADULT THEMES

Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Book 4

Ratings Explanation

Language:  A made-up word, “Ploopy” is used.  “Wipe my heinie, ploopy.”

Violence:  Lots of bullying.  Leon Ricket gives Greg wet willies and flicks his ear while in detention.   There are cartoon illustrations of bullies tripping people.   Rodrick punches Greg.  He then shoots him with a paint ball.  Greg convinces Rowley that some random guy standing at the urinal is a professional athlete.  Rowley asks him for his autograph.

Sexual Content:  Greg wants to play spin the bottle with Holly.  He wants to sneak over to Holly’s house during a sleepover.  Greg doesn’t want to spend a sleepover getting groped by a bunch of first-graders.  The first graders want to play, “Who Licked Me?”

Adult Themes:  Bullying.

Synopsis

Greg Heffley is an unlikely hero, as a weak specimen among men.  He continues to chronicle his middle school experiences through his “Journal”.  In Book Four, Greg tries to sidestep his father’s plans to send him to military school.  A quick sampling of Greg’s experiences:  Greg is totally freaked out by Shel Silverstein’s picture.  Greg is sent to detention with all the future criminals.   Greg sits in chocolate on the way to church on Easter Sunday. He doesn’t want to go inside with a poop-like stain on his pants.  Rodrick pulls off his pants in the church parking lot and gives them to Greg.  Greg wears his mother’s sweater as kilt-like clothing to attend church.  Greg’s underwear is found in the hall at school.

The potty humor continues.  However, Greg has plenty of humorous antics.  I found myself laughing aloud, during my son’s art lesson.  I tried to muffle my laughter, to no avail.

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