Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Book Series by Jeff Kinney Page A

blacktop since last spring. I guess it must’ve propped out
of
someone’s sandwich or something. Af+er a couple
of
Jays, the Cheese started gettihg all moldy and nasty. Mobody would play basketball on the court where the Cheese was, even though that was the only court that had a hoop with a net.
    "Then one day, this kid named Parren Vlalsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that’s what started this thing called the Cheese Touch. It’s basically like the Cooties. If you get the Cheese Touch, you’re stuck with it until you pass it on to someone else.

    The only way to protect
yoorst\f
from the Cheese Touch is to cross your fingers.

    But its not tKat easy remembering to keep your fingers crossed every moment
of
tKe day. X ended up taping mine togetKer
so
tKey’d stay crossed all tKe time. X
30
+ a P in Kandwr.tng, but i+ was totally wortK it.
    XKis one kid named Abe Hall got tKe CKeese X>ucK in April, and nobody would even come near kiim
for
tKe rest
of
tKe year. XKis summer Abe moved away
+0
California and -took tKe CKeese
"loueK witK Kim.
    X just Kope someone doesn't start tKe CKeese ToucK up again, because X don’t need tKat kind of
s+ress in my life anymore.
    XKursday
    XVn KaVing a seriously Kard time getting used +0
+Ke fact tKat summer is over ahd X KaVe to get out of bed every morning to go to scKool.
    My summer did not exactly get off to a great start, tKanks to my older brotKer Rodrick.

    A couple of days ih+o summer vaca+ioh, Rodrick woke me up ih +he riddle of +he high"t. He +old me X slepi -through +he whole Summer, bu+ +ha+ luckily X woke up jus+ ih time for +he first day of School.

    You mi^ht thihk X was pre+ty dumb for fallihg for that one, but Rodrick was dressed up ih his School clothes ahd he set my alarm clock ahead to make i+ look like it was the morhih^. Plus, he closed my cur+aihs so X couldh’t see that it was s+ill dark ou+.
    After Rodrick woke me up, X Just
30
+ dressed ahd weht dowhs+airs
+0
make myself some breakfast, like X do every mofhih^ oh a school day.

    Bu+ X guess I muS+ KaVe made a f>re++y kig racked kecause +Ke hcx+ +k»iv\g X khew, Pad was dowhs+airs, yellihg a+ me for ea+ihg CKeerios a+ 3:00 ih +Ke morhihg.

    X+ took me a mihute +o figure out wKa+ +Ke Keck was goihg oh.
    After X did, X told Pad +Ka+ Rod rick K«d flayed a +nck oh rne, ahd WE was +Ke ohe tK<»t sKould ke get+ihg yelled a+.
    Pad walked dowh to +Ke kasemeh+ +o cKew Rodrick out, ahd X tagged alohg. X couldht wai+ +o see Rodrick ge+ wKa+ was eomihg +o Kim.

    But Rod rick covered uj> V>»'s tracks pretty good. A*">d +o this day, £m sore Pad thinks X've 30+ a screw loose or something.

    Friday
    Today at school we got assigned +0 reading grooms.
    They don’t come right oot and tell you
i-f
    C
re in the Gifted group or the fc-asy group, yoo can ■figure it oot right away by looking at the covers 0/ the books they hand oot.

    X was pretty disappointed +o find ooi X
30+ pot in ike Gifted 3rooj>
(
because +k«i jost means a lot of extra worlc.
    VJken ikey did tke screen^ at ike end of last year,
X
did my best +0 make Sore
X
30+ pot in tke E-asy groop tkis year.

    Mom is real +13K+ w.ik oor principal, so XU bet ske stepped in and made sore
X
30+ po+ in ike Gifted 3
r
oop a    Mom is always sayin3
Xm
a smart kid, tot ikai X
jost don't "apply" myself.

    but
if
theres one thing X learned from Rod rich, its to Set people’s expectations real low so
you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

    Ac+ually, X'm kihd
of
glad my plah -to ge+ pu+ ih +ke Easy group didh‘+ work.
    X Saw a couple
of
+ke "Biink Says Boo" kids koldihg +keir kooks upside dowh, ahd X doh’+ •tkihk +key were joking.
    Saturday
    Vlell, +he frs+ week
of
school is finally over, so +oday X slep+ ih.
    MoS+ kids wake up early oh Sa+urday -to wa+ck cartoohS or wka+ever, kvt ho+ me. ike ohly reasoh X ge+ ou+
of
ked a+ all oh weekehds is kecause eVeh+ually, X cah+ s+ahd +ke ias+e
of
my