Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck will be the eighth book in the Wimpy Kid series, following The Third Wheel. After finishing the 7th book, Jeff Kinney announced that he was working on the eighth book. The second teaser confirmed it will be released in November 2013, and the third teaser confirmed it will be released on the 5th of that month. On 8th August, 2013, the cover's color, title and a synopsis was revealed.
Synopsis
Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has abandoned him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task for him. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance.
Cover
The cover is lime green, and has eight balls raining depicted with Greg dodging them with a book.
Trivia
- This book was first announced in the final pages of The Third Wheel.
- On 25 March 2013, Jeff Kinney revealed the book's teaser, which had Greg with an umbrella while Magic Eight Balls fall around him.
- On July 18th 2013, it was announced the cover would be revealed on the 8th of August 2013.
- Before the title of the book was revealed, there were a few rumours about what the book would be called, including Life Stress, Flipped Out, and a fake cover called "School Dilemma".
- This is the second book with the word DIARY not being yellow, the first was Dog Days.
- The word "of a Wimpy Kid" is not blue or red like the other books, instead it is orange.
Gallery
The teaser picture.
Third teaser.
A long-lost SketchBook which Kinney did quite a long time ago, he found it recently and is tweeting that he is going to use it for ideas for the book.
The eighth Chinese book, Survivor of a Skull Shaking Machine.
A scene from the book.
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