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|Box title = <font color="Tomato">Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down</font>
|Row 1 title = Artist
|Row 1 info = [[Jeff Kinney]]
|Row 2 title = Publisher
|Row 2 info = [[Abram Books]] (through Amulet Books) (US) Penguin Books (through Puffin Books) (UK)
http://goo.gl/uqRLOh
|Row 3 title = Release Date
|Row 3 info = November 1st, 2016
|Row 4 title = Pages
|Row 4 info = 217
|Row 5 title = Preceded By
|Row 5 info = ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School]]''
|Row 6 title = Followed By
|Row 6 info = ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway]]''
|image = [[File:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Double Down cover.jpg|300px]]
|caption = The book's official cover from the series' official website.
|Row 7 title = Color
|Row 7 info = Scarlet (Spine: Alternating colors of Scarlet and Yellow)
|Row 8 title = Book Number
|Row 8 info =11
}}
 
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'''Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down''' is the 11th book in the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]] series. It was released on November 1, 2016.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Double-Down-Diary-Wimpy-Kid/dp/1419723448?ie=UTF8&keywords=9781419723445&qid=1457622256&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1</ref>
 
== Main Characters ==
*[[Greg Heffley]]
*[[Susan Heffley]]
*[[Manny Heffley]]
*[[Rodrick Heffley]]
*[[Frank Heffley]]
*[[Rowley Jefferson]]
*[[Maddox Selsam]] (Main Antagonist)
 
== Plot ==
The pressure’s really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his “creative side.”
 
As if that’s not scary enough, Halloween is just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle.
 
When he discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can Greg get his mom off his back by making a movie...and will he become rich and famous in the process? Or will doubling down on this plan just double Greg’s troubles?<ref>http://www.wimpykid.com/books/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-book-11/</ref>
 
==Synopsis==
 
===October===
At the beginning of the book, protagonist Greg Heffley can be seen talking about how he thinks his life is a reality TV show, and how he thinks Rodrick, Manny, and all the other people in his life are just actors and robots, similar to the plot of The Truman Show. He later explains how he thinks that Manny was brought in as a new star to replace him. Later, Greg says his Nana is watching him from heaven, and he's got a lot of issues with it.
 
The Book Fair is at school, and Greg's mother Susan gives him $20 to spend. He spends all of it on silly and useless items, like a pen that writes underwater and two giant pencils with googly eyes. Susan, not happy with the way Greg spent her money, makes him trade it all in for books. Greg gets the [[Spineticklers]] books, which are basically horror novels, which makes Susan more unhappy. Greg then talks about a plan to freeze himself to the future and how Halloween is coming up.
 
Greg then discusses how the geese are in town and the deals of having a walking pet pig. Then he talks about the school's [[Balloon Brigade]], which is a school contest to see how far a student's balloon can travel, and how the prize is a giant bag of candy corn. The [[Cheese Touch]] is also discussed, and how other students keep trying to bring it back in a different form such as a [[Roast Beef Touch]]; however, the kids unsuccessfully try to make it work.
 
Greg later discusses how the [[Spineticklers]] books give him nightmares and how he regrets buying them. He later says that he got his balloon back and that the kid who found his balloon, [[Maddox Selsam]], came over for a play-date. It's later revealed that Maddox hasn't played video games or watched TV, and goes crazy when Greg pulls up a computer game. After Maddox leaves, Greg realizes that he forgot to get the balloon. Vice Principal Roy refuses to give Greg the candy corn unless he brings his balloon to school. He asks Susan for a play-date with Maddox, to which she and [[Mrs. Selsam]] leave Greg and Maddox behind while they go into town and have coffee. Greg is thoroughly disappointed by Maddox's house, as it is very old fashioned and does not have any electronics or any television. It is revealed Maddox has a Lego City in his room, but only lets Greg use the leftovers. Greg accidentally gets a brick stuck in his arm, which Maddox accuses Greg of stealing, leading to Greg being kicked out. Susan is disappointed at Greg, as he viewed Maddox as an antisocial nerd instead of a good role model. Susan, now going back to college full-time, has a chore bag where Greg and Rodrick pick chores to do. After finishing his chores, Greg goes to eat his giant candy corn that he won, but finds that the pig has eaten it. After the pig throws up multiple puddles of candy corn, Susan has a talk with Greg about his "pattern of deception" and punishes him by making him take three chores out of the chore bag each night. He then talks about how his brain works and how he has been lied to so many times over the years. Susan keeps putting the pressure on Greg to do something new other than video games while also introducing him to college. Greg and his friend Rowley later join the school band in order to get invited to [[Mariana Mendoza]]'s Halloween party. He practices the French Horn but hates it and wants to quit, angering Frank who tells Greg that he can't because that was an expensive instrument and he has to honor his commitment to the instrument. Greg finds videos of a high school girl practicing the french horn, which makes Greg glad. However, Greg finds out Mariana didn't invite the entire school band, only the woodwind section. Greg gets in the party by making a "Two-Headed Monster" costume.
 
===November===
Greg is later harassed at school about it for leaving early. At the Fall Band Concert, Greg gets stuck in the music room because Jake McGough gave him a flat tire. Rowley notices him in there, when he came in the room, he ended up getting locked in too. Causing a huge dilemma. Frank thinks they were goofing off and punishes Greg by taking away TV and video games for 2 weeks. Greg and Rowley later find a pack of gummy worms and Greg gets the idea for a scary movie. The plot would be about a man who goes to take a shower, only to end up being eaten alive by worms. He and Rowley, while filming it with Susan and Frank's camcorder, make a mess in the furnace room and one of the shelves comes falling down on them. Rowley runs out of the house with barely any clothes just as Frank gets home, and a news crew captures the whole moment. [[Frank]] gets mad at Greg for making the mess, and [[Susan]] later gets mad, because Greg and Rowley filmed right over a tape of Manny's first steps. Greg is additionally grounded for two more weeks, as well as having to clean up the mess and do extra chores. Rowley, on the other hand, drinks in his newfound fame and skips school to attend on-TV interviews with talk shows, much to Greg's dismay that [[Rowley]] doesn't mention Greg at all.
 
==Trivia==
* This is the second red book. The first is the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid|first book]].
* This is the second book where Rowley doesn't wear his usual outfit in the character page. The first book is [[Hard Luck]].
** This is also the first book since Hard Luck where Rowley is shown in the character page.
* This book contains a notable amount of pop culture references:
**The entire introduction where Greg thinks his life is a TV show is a parody of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show The Truman Show]. It is mentioned from Pages 1 to 15.
**Spineticklers is a parody [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinetinglers Spinetinglers], by M.T. Coffin.
**Spineticklers #48, “Wake Me Up In The Year 3000” is a parody of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama Futurama]. It was first mentioned on Page 41.
**The controversy surrounding ''Underpants Bandits'' is a parody of the controversy surrounding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Underpants Captain Underpants], by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dav_Pilkey Dav Pilkey].
**"Night Of The Night Crawlers" is just [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirm_(film) Squirm], but with gummy worms, instead of real life worms. The movie poster is shown on Page 194.
**There is a girl dressed like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermione_Granger Hermoine Granger] from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter Harry Potter] franchise at the Halloween party. She is first shown on Page 168.
**Maddox enjoys playing with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego Lego].
* Greg rarely wears shorts in this book, usually appearing in long pants or jeans.
* The backpack tipping over [[Greg Heffley|Greg]] on the cover is meant to be an ode to the backpack that makes Greg slouch on the first book's cover.
* This is the second book that has a reptile skin design. The first is [[Old School]].
** This is also the first book with the new Amulet logo.
* On Page 35, in the background, a group of kids are playing what may be "Girls Chase Boys".
* This is the fourth book where Fregley is absent.
* This is the first time the spine uses two colors (Red-Orange and Yellow). The second is [[The Getaway]] (which uses the following two colors: Azure and Yellow Green).
* This is the second odd-numbered book to not have it's title start with "The." The first is the first book.
** However, [[The Getaway|its successor]] ''does'' have it's title start with "The."
*** This is also the second odd-numbered book which doesn't have three words in its title (this book only has two words in its title). The first is also the first book, which doesn't have a title.
* This is the first time Greg's tongue is shown on the cover.
* It Is revealed Greg has more relatives. It also shows that [[Peepaw]] could possibly be dead, or he’s still alive.
* This is the first time since [[Hard Luck]] where the months don't skip from the previous book.
* This is the first book since [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever]] where the month in the beginning is the same as the month in the end from the previous book.
* This is the second book where [[The Heffleys' Pig|the pig]] has a role where he's in the [[Heffley family]]. The first is [[Old School]].
** The Pig eats candy twice in this book. He ate candy corn on Page 99. Then, he ate gummy worms on Page 210.
*** This book reveals that the Pig can get sick if he eats candy corn, but doesn’t get sick if he eats gummy worms.
* This is the first book in which the color of the spine is different than that of the cover. The second is [[The Getaway]].
 
==Errors==
* On Page 64 it says "Roast Roast Beef" when it should just say "Roast Beef", which is wrong. But in [http://diary-of-a-wimpy-kid.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wimpy_Kid_Movie_Diary#Long_Haul_Edition The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: The Next Chapter], on Page 69, the card on the table says: "Todays Special, Roast Roast Beef," so it could've been on purpose.
** This was proven to be a mistake, as it was fixed in a reprint.
* In the book, Greg says his [[Nana Heffley|Nana]] worked as a Waitress. However, in the preview, he says she worked as a Nurse.
** This may have been just be a change of plans.
* On the top of Page 49, the characters were shown too short.
* On Page 94, Mrs. Selsam's leg is in a humanly impossible position, and her skirt is shown as only covering that one leg.
 
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
 
== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Book 11 back cover.jpg|The back cover
InsideOfTheThingy.jpg|The main characters.
</gallery>
===Illustrations===
<gallery>
Greg and Rowley in snow.jpg
Rodrickbeingajerk.png
Susan gives more soap to Greg during bathing.jpg
Real parents in the sail boat.jpg
Heffley Family in Hospital.jpg
Frank Heffley gets washed by Greg Heffley.jpg
Aliens spying.jpg
Nana Heffley watching Greg in the bathroom.png
Nana Heffley and Greg's Relatives are watching Greg during the test.png
Susan puts the items using Poetry Anthology as stairs.jpg
Alex Aruda stayed behind during Recess.jpg
Spineticklers.png
SpineticklersRipoffs.png
The Atomic Wedgie.png
SpineticklersJunior.png
Spineticklers 48.jpg
Albert Sandy telling Greg and Rowley about a old billionare who is really sick and freeze himself.jpg|Albert Sandy telling Greg and Rowley about a old billionare who is really sick at that time, he paid a ton of money to freeze himself. Then in a hundred years he's gonna get unfrozen.
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BullyDoubleDown.png
Geese 1.jpg
Fredericks.png
Greg walks past the Halloween candies in supermarket.jpg
Greg sees Vice Principal Roy's office got candy corn grand prize.jpg
Balloon Brigade.jpg|Vice Principal Roy puts a thumbtack on a map in the library to show how far each balloon went.
Greg sees the Cheese Touch spot during Balloon Brigade.jpg|Greg sees the Cheese Touch spot in the basketball court during Balloon Brigade.
The teacher stopping a kid from putting a cheese to the Cheese Touch spot.jpg|The teacher is stopping a kid from putting a cheese to the Cheese Touch spot as they didn't want that nonsense again.
RoastBEEFTOUCH.png|One kid had the Roast Beef Touch but it didn't have the same effect as the Cheese Touch.
Tinkle Seat.jpg
Greg sneezes his teeth out.jpg
Spineticklers 71.jpg
Bonkers.jpg
Spineticklers 97.jpg
Amanda Pickler drops a fake brain on the floor and shocks students.jpg
Mr. McGlurk caught his son Danny in his garage.jpg
Mrs. Selsam tells Greg about video games.jpg
Legos!.png|Maddox's room full of Lego City.
Greg trips from the stairs.jpg
George washington.png
Information out of the ear.jpg
Greg scares Frank in the shower.jpg|Greg scares Frank out of the shower.
Garbage collector.jpg
Uncle Gary on the branch cutting with the saw.jpg|Uncle Gary sitting on the tree branch cutting with the saw on Double Down, he ended up having a broken collarbone.
Albert Sandy telling Greg and Rowley about human beings do amazing things.jpg
People using brains to do amazing things.jpg
Mrs. French teaching Greg playing piano in middle C.jpg
Grayden Bundy pulling his big French horn.jpg
Annabelle Grier whistling.jpg
GeorgeDeveney.png
Greg sees the guys in brass section.jpg
Mariana Mendoza and Rowley in woodwind section.jpg
Mrs. Graziano playing computer while kids warming up their instruments.jpg
Greg blaps and shocks everyone.jpg
Greg pinned Grayden Bundy to Jake McGough.jpg
Mrs. Graziano letting Grayden Bundy leave as punishment.jpg
Greg and Rowley cutting sheets for the costume to Mariana's party.jpg
Mariana Mendoza's Girls 2.jpg
Momma's Boy shoving Greg.jpg
Brass section.jpg
Jake McGough steps Greg's shoe.jpg
Frank telling Susan about a geese chasing the trick-or-treaters during Halloween.jpg
Rowley screams when he sees Greg has worm in his nose.jpg
Rowley telling Greg to suggest less scary like butterflies.jpg|Rowley suggested to Greg a less scary movie.
Greg and Rowley shot the skeleton scene in the kitchen.jpg
Greg and Rowley in the boiler room.jpg
Rowley on the tree scaring with the geeses.jpg
Rowley in the morning talk show.jpg
Rowley in the television.jpg
</gallery>
 
== Sneak Peeks ==
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