Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel is the 7th book of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The book's 7 page sneak peek was released on September 2012, then the book officially released on November 13, 2012. Uncle Gary was the main antagonist, this one of the only books to based on a specific event, its main event is the Valentine's Dance in the gym. Jeff Kinney also announced that a eighth book is also coming.The book's orignal title was "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Odd Man Out".

Characters

Main and Major

• Frank Heffley
• Rodrick Heffley
• Greg Heffley(Main Character)
• Rowley Jefferson
• Gary Heffley(Main Antagonist)
• Manny Heffley
• Susan Heffley
• Abigail Brown
• Eugene Ellis

Flashbacks

These are the flashbacks shown throughout the book,these are arranged in the order they were shown.

• The first time Greg went to Corny's he didn't look at his seat and ended up sitting on a open faced peanut butter jelly sandwich.
• Susan once took Manny to the ball-pit,Manny went into the plastic tubes and was too scared to come down on his own,so Susan made Greg go their,when Greg got to the top of the tubes,there wasn't any ventilation there so Greg's socks become dirty,a kid vommitted and all the kids ran away,Greg found Manny but Greg also got scared and a waiter came to save both of them and this caused Greg to throw away his favourite jeans because even after washing them with bleach three times,they weren't cleaning.
• (this was shown in the middle of the flashback when Manny gets stuck in plastic-tubes)Greg tells about how he is bad at mazes and how he and Susan went to the Corn maze in Reynold's farm a autumn ago,they got stuck their,Greg couldn't help them escape so Susan called somebody from 911 to rescue them.
• Greg says about how on a new year's eve Susan wanted Manny to feel what its like staying up at midnight without letting him stay late so Susan turned all the clocks three hours ahead ,Susan and Frank started counting with Manny,Greg thought it was midnight for real and he joined them,Greg slept at 10:30 thinking it was 1:30,this caused Greg's time shedule of the year messed up by three hours.
• Gary had once taking a job as a test-subject for a company which made pepper spray,he got fed up of the job and quit before lunch time.
• A summer ago,Greg's father had a "Bring your child to work day",all the kids went to the cafeteria and there the grown-ups had things to entertain the kids,later Frank took Greg to his office,Frank was getting disturbed by Greg,so he gave Greg a dollar,Greg bought some jawbreakers and Frank got more disturbed so he made Greg go out,Greg went to the bathroom and stayed almost the whole night until a janitor found him.
• Greg talks about how about a year ago he wrote the name of the girl he liked the most named Baylee Anthony,Baylee wrote Bryce Anderson's name,but Bryce got paired up with McKenzie Pollard,Greg got selected with Baylee because he picked her,but Baylee kept complaining and Greg couldn't dance.
• A assembly guest called Strong Steve came to the school a year ago,he gave kids a lecture about how they needed to stay off drugs and ripped a phone books as his finale.The kids got crazy after him and tore half of the refference books in the library.
• They also once had a guest called Krisstina who claimed to be a international pop singer and her lyrics were about telling kids too never give-up and follow their dreams,however her world tour tells she has never been out of the state.
• A police officer also one came and told the kids about narc which was about pretending to be a highschool student and report on teens that were doing bad things.
• On Greg's first day of middle school,a eighth grader came and told Greg about a secret elevator that goes to the second floor and sold a pass to him for five bucks,it turned out to be the janitor's room,Greg held the pass until he sold it to someother six-grader.
• A few weeks ago Greg's school had a fundraiser were they sold crunchy chocolate candy-bars,Greg ate about fifteen,until Susan found it out and stopped him,she also wrote a cheque and sent it to the school for money to make up for the candy-bars.
• Some years ago,Frank bought Gary a winter jacket,while Gary bought him a scratch card which only costed a dollar,Frank was angry,but when he scratched,he got three cherries which were the prize for a hundred-thousand dollar,Frank got excited but found it was a fake gag gift.
• When Susan was in PTA,she started a petition about making kids wear school-uniforms because she read it makes kid do better in academics,she didn't got much signatures,but it got spread that she was the one who started it,some kids got angry and wanted to beat Greg up afters school,,making Greg a half-hour until it gets safe outside.
• Greg talks about how Rodrick used to give time-outs to Greg even though he wasn't authorized to give him,Greg once broke the wedding photo,Rodrick gave him a half-hour timeout,when Greg's parents came Greg said that they didn't need to give him a time-out because Rodrick already gave him,but they told him only the can give him time-outs and gave him a double time-out.

Excerpts

• I looked for a way to escape, but I was trapped. Luckily, Abigail walked out of the bathroom at that exact moment and I grabbed her hand just before Ruby got to me. Abigail's makeup was a mess from all of the crying, but I didn't really care. I was just happy to have an excuse to get  away from Ruby. And to be honest with you, I think Abigail was happy to see me, too, so I led her to an empty spot on the dance floor.

• I'd never slow-danced with a girl before, So I didn't know where I was supposed to put my hands. She put hers on my shoulder, and I put mine in my pockets, but that kind of felt dumb. So we met in the middle, and that seemed about right.

• And speaking of Rowley and Abigail, I heard that the two of them are a couple now. All I can say is if that's true, it makes Rowley 'the worst wingman in history.'
• Im supposed to stay home from school for at least a week. The good news is that with everyone out of the house, I can take a long bath without anyone bothering me.
• Or at least I THINK I'm alone. Today I had a fresh towel next to the tub, and when I open my eyes it was gone. So either somebody's messing with me or Johnny Chedder is at it again.
• Everything probably would've been just fine, but at lunch someone threw a roll of toilet paper at somebody else, and within about fifteen seconds it was a total madhouse.
• I couldn't find any cologne in Rodrick's junk drawer, but I DID find a bottle of that body spray they're always advertising on TV. I was a little nervous about using it, though, because if that stuff really works like they say in the ads then tomorrow night could be a nightmare.
• I just watched everything play out from my spot against the back wall,wondering why I'd wanted to go to the dance in the first place. I was also to regret not wearing body spray in Rodrick's junk drawer, because Great Uncle Bruce's colonge was attracting people outside my age group.

Gallery

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  Seniors Overrun the dance

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  Abigail finds that her boyfriend Michael cheated on her.

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  Greg mistakens Abigail's pimples for chicken pox and screams and freaks out.

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  Greg ends up getting chicken pox.

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  Greg's love letter gets scribbled by a random kid from detention

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  Jamar Law gets his head stuck inside a chair.

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  Greg's relationship chart

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  Rowley become's Greg's Wingman.

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  Greg's Valentine's day photo.

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  Uncle Gary as the DJ of the dance.

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  The Kids cut loose at the dance and become crazy.

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  Greg as a baby.

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  Rodrick loses his pacifier

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  Manny is born.

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  Greg with his playgroup.

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  Manny locks himself in Sweetie's excersise pen to keep all the toys to himself.

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  Greg finds Uncle Gary at the door.

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  Greg forced to dance a walt with Carlos Escalera

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  Amazing Andrew hyptonizes a bunch of kids.

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  Eugene gives his speech

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  Eugene Gets Elected.

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  Greg, in the past, enters preschool, only to discover his worst nightmare: kids who are smarter than him.

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  The signature picture for the book.

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  Young versions of Greg's parents kissing,disgusting Greg.

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  Greg and Rodrick cover Gary with a sheet when Stringers are coming for dinner.

Major Events

• Greg talks about when he was a baby.
• Uncle Gary 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 Dance.
• Greg goes to the Valentine's Dance with Abigail and Rowley as a group of friends.
• Uncle Gary wins $40,000 and moves out.
• Greg gets chicken pox in the end.
• Greg heard a rumour that Rowley and Abigail became a couple.

Trivia

• Holly Hills was rumoured 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 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 Movie Dog Days, Holly did became couple with Greg; in the book they didn't become couples which might explain why Holly picked Bryce Anderson.
• This book has the joint least-months along with Cabin Fever as they both have only two months.
• It is unknown who the Mad Pantser is.
• 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.
• Jeff Kinney announced that Diary of a Wimpy Kid 8 is coming.
• Rodrick is shown much skinner then he is in other books.
• Rowley closes his mouth for the first time in the books on page 166 while eating chocolate,he closed his mouth in the online version,so this can't be considered the first time in the "history".
• 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, it might be revealed in eighth book.
• 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.
• Greg claims to remember stuff before he was born. However, doing so is biologically impossible. He is most likely writing what he thinks happened. 
• Greg has his dick wanked off by his father to wake him up for school. This is the second time this has happened in the series. The first was The Last Straw.
• Greg weighed only 5 pounds and 7 ounces at birth - the average is 7 ounces and 8 pounds, meaning he was two pounds lighter than average,this hints why he was so thin and another hint is that he was born 3 weeks premature