Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney

This is the eighth book in the bestselling Wimpy Kid series and has loads of crispy laffs (!!) included in its pages.

Rowley, Greg's best friend has ditched him and is instead hanging out with his girlfriend, Abigail (see Diary Of A Wimpy Kid - The Third Wheel.) Greg is trying to find new friends but it's proving to be a tough task and his options aren't the best. Even his little brother Manny has made a friend! Things are getting worse for Greg and he needs to think up something... and fast.

It's Easter and the Heffley family are off to Greg's Grandma's for the day. All of the family is there for the celebration. The family used to go to Meemaw's house (Greg's Great Grandma's house) for the day. Meemaw would do this egg hunt for the kids where she would buy some plastic eggs and put prizes in them but soon Meemaw began to get a little bit loopy and put some strange things in the eggs. The last egg hunt was the year that Meemaw passed away. Soon the relatives were wondering which one of them would get Meemaw's diamond ring. There was a lot of bickering but finally they decided that it was every relative for themselves and started to search for the ring. Aunt Laura looked in the photo albums to see if there was any trace of a will but there was nothing. They began to flick through the pages and found a clue to the ring's disappearance. In one picture, Meemaw had her ring on and was putting prizes in the plastic eggs, in the next picture, taken right after, Meemaw was holding up her homemade apple pie but the ring was no longer on her finger. It didn't take a genius to figure it out. In about five minutes every single adult was out in Meemaw's garden with one of those wicker baskets that are seriously overrated!

Greg's options for friends are at an all time low. He has resulted in looking in his brother's room for something that can help him with his big decisions (in the past, looking in his brother's room has proved very helpful.) He gets lucky and finds one of those magic eight balls that when you shake it an answer comes up in a small hole at the back. Can this eight ball really change Greg's luck or is it just a gimmick?

This book, for me, feels a little bit short but that's only because it's so good you want there to be more!

RATING: 7/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!