Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Plot (Spoilers Alert!)

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The book describes this as Greg's "worst summer ever." The book begins with Greg saying how he, Rowley, and Trista, a girl which he and Rowley met at the end of the third book, went to Rowley's vacation country club. Trista meets a life guard at the club and never is mentioned again throughout the entire book. Then Rowley tells Greg that he can't invite him to the country club anymore. So then Greg, Greg's mother, and Manny his younger brother go to the town pool. Greg gets grossed out as he goes through the men's locker room. Also, the family hasn't made enough money to go the beach. Also Greg goes to the salon that his mother goes to and becomes hooked to soap operas and drama's he learned about from the ladies at the salon. Rowley and Greg watch a horror movie about a muddy hand that kills people and scare themselves from watching it. Rowley and Greg get too scared to go sleep down stairs and end up sleeping in the bathroom. Greg's dad ends up finding them sleeping in the bathroom and asks Greg why, and Greg tells them they watched a scary movie. Susan(Greg's mother) finds out from the father and makes a reading club for all boys in the neighborhood. The club drops down to one person being Greg. Someone knocks on the door while Greg is reading from a book. It turns out to be Rowley's father and he doesn't look happy and it turns out that there's eighty-three dollars total on fruit smoothies Rowley and Greg had at the country club. So Rowley and Greg make V.I.P. Lawn Service company which was an epic fail. Rowley bails out on Greg leaving Greg to figure out how to bring the money. About a day or two later, Greg goes to the salon and his stylist tells him that Rowley is heartbroken because Greg didn't 't invite him to his birthday party. Greg has a birthday party with just his family and receives many checks. His mom takes all the checks from him and gives them to Rowley's father. Greg receives clothe and other things. He also receives a lady bug cell phone and his cake is eaten by his uncle's dog Killer. Greg's mom takes Manny, Rodrick, and Greg to the pet store and Greg buys a fish and Rodrick buys a fish that's aggressive. Two days later, Greg's mom is taking them on a "surprise trip." Greg believes its the beach because his mom has bathing suits, sun screen, towels, and more beach stuff. Greg finds out its really a slip n slide park. It begins to rain when they are there and they go home. When Greg goes home, he finds out his fish is gone because Rodrick's fish was placed in the same bowl. The next day is father's day and someone asked Greg why hes sad, and he says its cause of his fish because it died. Then his dad tells the story of how his dog ran away to a butterfly farm. Greg's father's father, says he has a confession to make that he really ran over the dog. Greg's father is so angry he leaves his father with the bill. He drops the family off at home and returns with a cardboard box that has a puppy in it. They name is sweet-heart, sweetie for short. Much to Greg's surprise, the dog is annoying and rather hard to take care of. Also, the dog is always on Greg's bed. On the fourth of July, the family goes to the town pool to celebrate fireworks weren't working at the town pool but, everyone ended up watching them coming from leisure's hotel. In a picture of Manny, Greg ends up noticing that Heather Hills is the life guard there and tries to impress her but ends up giving up. One day, Greg's mom tells Greg he has to take Manny with him through the men's locker room because Manny is getting too old. Manny had never been in a men's locker room so he was curious about everything. The next day at the market, Greg runs into Rowley and his family at the super market, and Rowley's mom asked if Greg wanted to come with them to the beach. Greg's mom said yes. Greg ended up going but it turned out to be boring and quiet. Finally, they go to the board walk and play arcade games and play a dollar trick. Rowley's dad came looking angry complaining he had been looking for them for an hour. They got sent to bed extra-early. Greg also gets to ride the cranium shaker a ride in which Rodrick says,'Your not a man until you ride it.' One night, Greg gives Rowley a static electricity shock and shocks him and Rowley does the same to him. At night, when Rowley is in bed, Greg gets him with a rubber band snapping it hardly making Rowley scream. His parents saw what Greg did and sent him home early. The dog ended up being given away to Greg's grandma. The book ends with the photo album of his "best summer ever".