Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel is the 7th book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. It was released on Tuesday, November 13, 2012.

Main Characters

 * Greg Heffley
 * Rowley Jefferson
 * Gary Heffley (Main Antagonist)
 * Frank Heffley
 * Manny Heffley
 * Susan Heffley
 * Rodrick Heffley

Synopsis

 * it was fucking shit

Sneak Peek
This is a small 54 page sneak peek into the book given by Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wiki. You might need to click on the images to view them more clearly. There was also a 7 page sneak peek if you had pre ordered the book from Scholastic.

Major Events and Moments

 * Greg talks about the days when he was a baby.
 * Gary Heffley moves in with the Heffleys.
 * Rowley becomes the Social Chairperson.
 * Eugene Ellis becomes the President of Student Council.
 * Javan Hill becomes the Treasurer.
 * Hillary Pine becomes the Vice President.
 * Olivia Davis becomes the Secretary.
 * The formation of the Dance Committee.
 * Greg tries to get a date for the Valentine's Day Dance.
 * Greg goes to the Valentine's Day Dance with Abigail and Rowley as a group of "friends".
 * Gary Heffley wins $40,000 from his scratch card and moves out of the house.
 * Greg gets chicken pox in the end.
 * Rowley and Abigail possibly became a couple. It is confirmed in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck that they are actually a couple until the end of the book.

Trivia

 * This is the 7th book in the series.
 * Holly Hills was rumored to be Greg’s partner for the dance by many fans, but she wasn't even mentioned and only appeared in Greg’s relationship chart as liking Bryce Anderson. This could mean that Greg has given up on Holly. At the end of The Last Straw it was hinted after Greg wrote the fake letter from Holly Hills that he gave up on her due to being too hard to reach.
 * However, in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (film), Holly might have became a couple with Greg; in the book they didn't become couples which might explain why Holly picked Bryce Anderson.
 * In The Long Haul, he imagines marrying her and having kids.
 * The Mad Panster’s identity is unknown.
 * He could be Anthony Renfrew since Anthony was the starter of Pantsing Fever, but it could also be somebody else.
 * There is an exclusive version of this book, which has Fregley’s secret note in the back. It's a poem by Fregley that shows why girls (specifically Ruby Bird) must go with him to the dance.
 * Rowley closes his mouth for the second time in the books on Page 166 while eating chocolate.
 * It was revealed that Rodrick might hate Greg because Susan gave Rodrick’s pacifier to Greg and Rodrick never wanted to give his pacifier up, but this might not be true because Rodrick doesn't act childish and Greg is not always true.
 * It is unknown what happened to Greg’s towel at the end of the story.
 * Rodrick has a much shorter role in this book, in most of the parts when the family gathers together Rodrick is not there.
 * Also, Rodrick doesn't bother Greg, making it the first book to not have Rodrick bully Greg.
 * Rodrick also does not have any dialogue in this book.
 * This is the first time a character's lies about it being another character's birthday at a restaurant.
 * Greg has his covers yanked off the bed by his father to wake him up for school. This is the second time this has happened in the series, the first being The Last Straw.
 * Greg apparently weighed only five pounds and seven ounces at birth - the average is seven pounds and eight ounces, meaning he was two pounds lighter than average, this hints why he was so thin and another hint is that he was born three weeks premature, as well as Greg mentioning that he never met Rodrick until a few days after he was born.
 * The book's title was originally Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Odd Man Out, but Kinney changed it to The Third Wheel for a reason. The twitter post is here.
 * Rowley and Abigail Brown remain a couple in Hard Luck, marking the first time either Greg or Rowley has had a relationship and even more remarkably over more than one book.
 * In this book even in the flash-backs Greg doesn't have buck teeth, this is the first book to feature a very young or baby Greg without buck teeth.
 * This book covers the months of January and February.
 * This is the first book where someone gets Chicken pox.
 * This the third time that Greg’s Diary is mentioned, the first is Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
 * This is the 3rd book in the series to have "the" in the title.
 * This is the second book to begin in January. The Last Straw was the first.

Errors

 * This is the second book to have an error in the length of a month. February had 5 weeks instead of 4. The first was Dog Days' June.
 * On Page 102, when Greg states the "motocross/wrestling event somehow morphed into a VALENTINE'S DAY DANCE", the capital "V" in "Valentine's" looks slightly different from other capital V's in the books.
 * On Page 172, Abigail appears to be taller than average when she touches the sixth line unlike the other scenes that appeared are even mid or low five lines or high four lines.
 * These mistake are usually not uncommon and happen in many other books.
 * Rodrick is shown much skinnier then he is in other books.