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“Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul” is a young adult novel by Jeff Kinney which recounts the misadventure-prone summer road trip of Greg Heffley and his family. “The Long Haul” is the ninth installment in Kinney’s “Wimpy Kid” series. When the novel begins, summer vacation has just gotten underway. Greg looks forward to a long summer of relaxing and doing nothing important. But his mother, Sue, after reading an article about family vacations in Family Frolic Magazine, decides the family will go on such a vacation.

Sue determines they will use the Family Frolic article as a guide to their own vacation. Greg, his father Frank, and his brothers Rodrick and Manny are uncertain about the trip. The family packs up their minivan, and attaches Frank’s old boat to the back. They then get on their way. The family misses several sightseeing opportunities because Manny is napping, and they do not want to wake him up. The motel the family takes for the first night is run-down and dirty. Greg and Rodrick go to use the hot tub, but a large, hairy, bearded man and his annoying family are using it and won’t get out. Greg nicknames the family “The Beardos”. Trying to sleep, Greg later hears loud sounds outside. There, he discovers the Beardo children ramming a janitorial cart into the wall. Greg yells at them, but must rush back inside when the Beardo father comes out to yell at him.

The family next heads to the annual county fair. There, Greg narrowly avoids running into the Beardos. Manny guesses the weight of a pig at a weight-guessing contest, and wins a baby pig as a result. The baby pig causes numerous problems, from eating out of the minibar at the next hotel to scrambling around the minivan and causing Frank to swerve over to the side of the road. Frank puts his foot down and demands the pig be given up to a petting zoo. Manny is very unhappy with this. After the minivan’s sunroof breaks, rain floods everyone inside, causing Sue to declare that the family still has a chance to have a good vacation, and will stop following the Family Frolic guidelines. By taking random turns, Greg and his family end up in a small town diner with amazing apple pie. When leaving, they interrupt a funeral procession. The mourners are not happy.

Greg’s family then decides to head to the beach. Stuck on the bridge to the beach, Greg decides to feed a seagull through the sunroof, leading to the minivan being flooded with seagulls, and causing a fender-bender. The minivan must then be repaired, so Greg and his family decide to spend the next few hours at Soak Central, a crowded water amusement park. They put their personal possessions away in a locker, and then manage to find a lawn chair to put their clothes on to go swimming. Greg discovers the Beardo family has taken their chair, left their clothes on the ground – and has taken their locker key. Greg and his family have the staff open up their locker, only to discover it is empty.

Greg and his family decide enough is enough, and head home. As they head home, they discover which motel the Beardos are staying at, and sneak into the Beardos’ room to see if their personal possessions can be found. Frank is caught using the bathroom, and throws the Beardos’ keys into the bushes to have a chance at escape without being followed. The minivan’s radiator breaks, and then gets a flat tire. A passing Hispanic father and son stop to help. Manny surprises everyone by speaking Spanish.

Manny directs the father and son to the petting zoo, where Frank and Susan agree to bring the baby pig back home as a pet. The boat is given to the father and son as a gift. Back at home, Frank must spend days canceling his credit cards, ordering new ones, and getting things back in order. Greg later finds out he had the locker key all along, and that the number on the key was different than the locker the staff opened up. Greg wonders whether he will tell his parents or not about the key – and if so, what story he will invent to use.

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The Long Haul

A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun . . . unless, of course, you’re the Heffleys. In  The Long Haul,  Book 9 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, t he journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig—not exactly Greg Heffley’s idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure—and this is one the Heffleys won’t soon forget.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is the 9th book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series . It was released on November 4 th , 2014, and was adapted into a film , which premiered on May 17 th , 2017. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul succeeds Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck and precedes Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School .

• 1 Main characters
• 4 International edits
• 8 Names in other languages
• 9 References

Main characters

• Greg Heffley
• Rodrick Heffley
• Manny Heffley
• Susan Heffley
• Frank Heffley
• Flat Stanley

A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun... Unless, of course, you're the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, a fender-bender, crazed seagulls, and a runaway pig— not Greg Heffley's idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will never forget.

The story begins with Greg , Rodrick , and Manny happily watching the TV since their summer break just started, when Susan comes to tell them that they are going on a road trip and to pack their bags. Greg then talks about how his parents had made a surprise trip before and that Susan had once told them they were going to Aunt Loretta's when instead they were going to Disney, disappointing Manny so they had to have both trips, postponing the Disney one. Greg then talks about the " Family Frolic " magazine from which Susan gets all her ideas and explains how they don't turn out well for the family. He then talks about a boat which Frank bought a few years ago, but never used for years and because he could not afford to winterize it, it developed cracks and soon became a storage zone where raccoons started to live in. They then get the stuff they need for the trip and start cutting what they don't need, but there is still too much of it, which they resolve by using the boat to put stuff in it, albeit the car is still cramped, but there is room.

On the first day of the road trip, Greg is forced to sit in the back with the stuff by Rodrick. Susan tells the family that there was a special visitor that is coming on the trip, then takes out Flat Stanley from her purse. She hopes to take photos of him in front of various places on their trip. Susan then puts in a Spanish CD so that they can learn Spanish, but they don't pay attention (sans Manny). Susan later abandons this plan and started playing a game called "Alphabet Groceries", in which Greg finds out that Manny can say whatever he wants with the letter instead of food from the grocery store since Susan states that Manny is trying to learn the alphabet and they all have to encourage him. (He wins by adding random letters to the word "apple" after Greg says "apple" and Rodrick quits.) Susan also created " Mommy Meal ", which she thought was a healthier choice than what fast-food restaurants have. When he and Rodrick find out the prize is some math flashcards, which neither of them likes, Greg changes the game by picking up a random game. The game is called "I Must Confess". During the game, Greg learns a lot of information about his family that he never knew before like Rodrick got a bug in his ear (he actually remembers that one), Frank had a chameleon as a kid and Susan dyed her hair blonde once. Rodrick actually won by getting a final point for toilet-papering a neighbor's house, but Susan has to give him the phone to apologize to Mrs.Tuttle .

Manny falls asleep, which when Susan finds out, they decide to stop for now (Greg tells about how he wished they had nap time in kindergarten when he was Manny's age). The family decides to pick their dinner up at the grocery store, but if they wake Manny up then he would have a fit. So, they have to drive slowly and Rodrick has to get out so that he can buy the things they need. After picking up the dinner, they search through motels. Eventually, they find a motel with air-conditioning and a pool, which is very run-down and dirty. The family was forced to have the final room where there are marks that are probably cigarette burns and a wet towel in their room. There is also a 24-hour cancellation policy so they have to stay there. Since Rodrick bought snacks he actually liked instead of buying stuff Susan tells him for dinner, they had to eat Sugar Wafers and breath mints for dinner.

Rodrick and Greg decide to go swimming to spend time since there is nothing they can do to have fun in the motel. However, there is no water in the pool. They try the hot tub, but it is filled with a family, and the tub has a 15-minute policy. Bored, they go back to their room, only to find that everybody else is asleep. Rodrick easily goes off to sleep by making a bed with cushions. Greg decides to sleep in the closet, but at first, there is a smell that Greg can't stop, and then is suddenly woken up by a loud noise from outside. There is a bunch of kids from the hot tub who got hold of a cleaning cart. He goes out to scold them, but the youngest one starts to cry and runs back into his room. The kid then brings out his father, who made an angry look towards Greg, who runs back into his room and they don't notice which room he went to and to the wrong one. Greg then places a "Do Not Disturb" key for anyone who tried getting in. He nicknames the family "The Beardos".

After getting up, Manny watches TV and talks to the characters, and Greg finds out that the smell that distracted him the night before was Rodrick's shoes, and the "wet cloth" he tried to block the smell with was one of Rodrick's socks. After the rest of the family gets into the car, Susan decides to take the family to The Country Fair. While driving, they see the Beardos' van, who catch a glimpse of Greg, and the Heffleys park the car near the fair. Inside, Greg, Rodrick, and their father eat deep-fried butter on a stick then Greg and Rodrick go for the foulest footwear contest, their entry was Rodrick's shoe which won and was sent for the national contest, leaving him walking around with only one shoe. In the livestock area, Manny wins a contest where the person has to guess the closest to a hog's weight, which he guessed 243.1 which turned out to be the actual weight. The prize is a live baby pig and they can't return him back.

They have to empty a cooler to put the pig inside, as he had tried to escape. He makes friends with Manny and eats their left-over food. Then later they book a room at a hotel, but it has a no-pets rule. They hide the pig and then take him out into the room. The pig goes crazy, opens the minibar, eats everything, and also drinks some of the drinks of both the rooms of Frank, Susan, and Manny and that of Rodrick and Greg. They later keep him inside to visit some places. Frank gets a call from an international client and asks the family to be silent, but then Rodrick chews gum which gets stuck in the sunroof, Susan snaps her fingers, Frank stares with his knees and the pig starts to suck on Manny's pacifier until Greg tries to take him out when he bites him and tries to escape, then a tractor starts honking on them, and Frank finds that his call wasn't cut and his client was still on the other side. They later give the pig to a petting zoo which makes Manny upset and he gets tempted to run away.

Greg needs to get to a doctor because his finger got bitten by the pig, but they can't find a hospital nearby, so they go to a veterinarian hospital instead, where Greg is registered as a "pet human". A doctor gives him an anti-bacterial ointment and lets him go, while Manny tries to escape again, but they buy a leash so that he doesn't run away. They later arrive at a town where they go to a restaurant, which has the best apple pie Greg had tasted in his life. During that time, Manny runs away for the fourth time but is caught by Frank. After freaking out in a pet cemetery (where they were forced by a funeral van), they pull over at a hotel and book a room on the seventh floor. But, since the sunroof was broken and they were worried that somebody will sneak in and take all of their stuff, they have to bring in everything they had packed.

After a debate on where they should go the next morning, Susan thinks that they should go to the beach. After reaching the bridge with a large traffic jam, Frank and Rodrick switch spots, due to Frank's peculiar inability to drive over bridges across any body of water. Greg sees a seagull staring at him, and feeling sorry for it, he throws a cheese curl to the seagull. When he is about to throw another cheese curl, Susan stops him, saying that seagulls are aggressive, and to never give them "people food". But, the seagull comes to the sunroof, wanting more. Greg tries to ward it off with cheese curls but unintentionally drives it into a panic, causing havoc in the van. The seagull eventually escapes with the bag of cheese curls but is intercepted by nine other seagulls. This causes the cheese curls to fall back into the van. This prompts the seagulls to dive-bomb into the car in a chase, and chaos ensues, described by Greg as "a total nightmare". It gets even worse when their van crashes into a car that breaks their radiator. However, Greg sees that the Soak Central Water Park is a few blocks away, and begs Susan to go. Susan wants to do something "wholesome" like going to a library, but she is outvoted 4-1.

In the water park, they find only one seat available and pile up their stuff there. Rodrick and Greg go to play hide-and-seek, then to make sure that the seeker doesn't go underwater he has a paper in his hand so that if he goes underwater it would get wet, but Rodrick writes "I am not wearing a bathing suit" on the paper, which embarrasses Greg and makes people run away from him. Later he goes on the slide but gets in a fight with a woman and her boyfriend in a line, due to a boy behind him poking the woman in the butt with a pool noodle, whom he later escapes by hiding in the lazy river. Greg has had enough with the water after that and decides to go home. He finds that the Beardos had taken the chair, and their stuff was piled up somewhere else. Greg thinks he doesn't have the locker key and tells his parents about it. They have to ask a worker about it. Greg kind of remembers the locker number, but when the worker opens the locker, there are no objects in it. Greg then thinks the Beardos were the thieves, but when they got back, the chair was gone and the Beardos' van drove away when Greg got to the exit. The family thought that their valuables were stolen by the Beardos Greg encountered at the hotel. The Heffleys call the police, but to no avail. Fortunately, their car keys were at the mechanic's and they go to the mechanic's to retrieve their car, but with their money presumed stolen, they cannot pay for the repairs. As a result, the mechanic uses sealant to temporarily fix the radiator. The drawback is that the car's heater has to run at full blast to prevent engine overheating.

While on the highway, a tarp covering Frank's boat loosens and the Heffleys' items begin falling out. They spend two hours trying to retrieve the contents, but many items are still missing. The family finds some loose cash in the car and buys nuggets from a fast food place for dinner. Then the family tries to find a place to sleep. Greg's father drives the car into the wilderness mistakenly believing that there was going to be a camping site in that area. The cinnamon rolls Rodrick had purchased previously, which were sitting on top of the car's operating heater vents (their car heater had to run at full blast due to the broken radiator), explodes, sending cinnamon bits onto the back of Rodrick's head. Rodrick panics thinking that the slime was his brains, and gets even more upset when Manny licks the stuff off his fingers. After cleanup, the family finds a grocery store and parks in the parking lot for the night. They go to their hotel room and Frank is embarrassed by Mr. Beardo once he was caught using the bathroom. Manny tries to run away again but is quickly stopped. They then encounter two Spanish-speaking men, who were helping them in a purple van, where Manny gets his pig back and they go home and it takes a while for things to get back to normal for the Heffley Family , but things ultimately do.

At the very end, Greg finds the locker number key in his shorts while he's going through his laundry, and realizes that he got the number wrong, which is actually 292. Greg says he has four options: 1.) Simply tell his parents the truth and face the consequences, 2.) Frame Rodrick by stashing the key in his laundry, 3.) Flush the key down the toilet, or 4.) Something involving the family's now-pet pig, but Greg hasn't figured that option out yet. It's hard for Greg to find out what to do next, leaving a cliffhanger ending for this book.

International edits

• Spanish translation: Spanish is changed to English. However, they are not direct translations of the Spanish dialogue from the original English version.
• Susan says "Tango hamburger!" instead of "Tango hamburgers!"
• Rodrick says that there were four bandmates instead of two.
• In a flashback, Greg says "Nee, is klar!" ("No, it's clear!") instead of "Yeah, right!"
• Greg suggests that "punkte" (points) be drawn on the box instead of polka dots.
• The pig is consistently referred to as a "ferkel" (piglet) instead of just a pig.
• Hebrew translation: Greg writes to Mark Twain instead of Nathaniel Hawthorne .
• Japanese version: The bootleg copy of the Underpants Bandits book with Leonardo da Vinci is written in Chinese instead of Japanese.
• This book has three exclusive versions. The first exclusive version comes with two bag tags, the second exclusive version has a road-trip bingo game inside, and the third version comes with bumper stickers.
• When Susan accidentally turns on the Spanish CD on page 121, the words coming out of the speakers translate to "Please speak more slowly."
• This book's original title was The Way Way Back . Jeff Kinney decided against it due to a movie with the same title already being released. [1]
• Some pages show Greg being taller than Rodrick.
• Most characters appear too short in this book, such as Rodrick on page 18.
• Greg's waist is too high on some pages.
• Rodrick is shown too tall on page 188 and Frank is shown too tall on page 211.
• The pig is transparent on page 213.
• On page 207, Frank looks like he has a human tail.
• The woman riding on the horse has nobody on page 48.
• In second grade, Greg and Rowley sent Flat Stanley to other people. In Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal , Rowley explains that he met Greg in fourth grade. This is a continuity error.

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Film Review: ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul’

An amiable, fast-paced reboot of the series based on Jeff Kinney's hugely popular books featuring an all-new cast.

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Until the dread day when CGI replaces actors outright, there will be dilemmas like the one that faced makers of the “ Diary of a Wimpy Kid ” features: After three films adapted from Jeff Kinney’s hugely popular books, the juvenile thespians aged out of their roles. There’s been some fan grumbling about their unfortunate if inevitable replacement in “The Long Haul,” which reboots the series after a five-year layoff. But the entirely new cast steps in seamlessly — in some instances they might actually be improved models — and returning producer-director David Bowers, this time sharing screenplay credit with Kinney himself, delivers an amiable, fast-paced entry that should win over fans.

The ninth volume so far (No. 12 is due this fall), “Long Haul” isn’t necessarily among the best, but it provides the Heffley family with various changes of scenery that sufficiently differentiate this latest screen installment from its predecessors. The efficiently engineered script also lifts incidents from other “Wimpy Kids” books, notably the addition of running plot threads involving popular ubernerd-gamer personality Mac Digby (Joshua Hoover) and a viral online humiliation for 12-year-old protagonist Greg (Jason Drucker).

It’s mom Susan ( Alicia Silverstone ) who hatches the bright idea to road-trip it to grandma’s 90th birthday celebration, a decision not joyfully received by anyone else — certainly not Greg, his eternally tormenting older sibling Rodrick (Charlie Wright), or even dad Frank (Tom Everett Scott), who’s had to sneak a few days off from his job during a crunch period. (Too young to care one way or the other is toddler Manny, played here by twins Dylan and Wyatt Walters.) Nor does mom lighten the mood by insisting that for the sake of “family time” this sojourn will be “unplugged,” with all cellphones, laptops, gameboys et al. confiscated — though the menfolk soon find ways to secretly circumvent that rule.

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After an initial setpiece at a Chuck E. Cheese-type restaurant, the Heffreys hit the highway. Travel mishaps come hard and fast, including a night at a decrepit motel where Greg first runs afoul of a nasty “rival” nuclear unit (led by Chris Coppola as belligerent “Mr. Beardo”), the inconvenient winning of a pet piglet at a county fair and the older boys’ unauthorized detour to a gaming expo.

While some of the humor is of a lowbrow peepee/caca type that will have most adults rolling their eyes, there are bits everyone will enjoy, notably a clever “I Confess” car game that Greg uses to give prankster Rodrick a taste of his own medicine. The slapstick highlight is a moving-vehicle disaster involving hungry seagulls, a broken sunroof and a whole lot of Cheetohs.

These movies don’t fully capture the charm of the books — in particular Kinney’s delightful line drawings, though once again the latter are animated here in brief sequences. (Bower, who himself graduated from toons to live action and has directed all “Wimpy” films since Thor Freudenthal’s 2010 kickoff, purportedly first thought of making this installment fully animated — an idea that would still be welcome for future “Diary” entries.) But they’re lively, polished and good-natured as family entertainment goes.

The new actors bear close-enough physical resemblances to their predecessors, apart perhaps from Silverstone, who is a bit sitcomishly effortful. (But then, Susan’s function is basically that of killjoy.) More importantly, they slip into their characters with seemingly practiced ease. Loyalists who particularly squawked at losing Devon Bostick’s Rodrick will be hard-pressed to deny that Wright is a more-than-worthy replacement, and though no one ever relished saying goodbye to the estimable Steve Zahn, Scott is also a particularly good fit in Frank’s shoes.

Shot in and around Atlanta, the production follows the earlier films’ blueprint in its competent if uninspired packaging, including rote use of pop songs (by Green Day, Bruno Mars, etc.) to bump up the soundtrack’s energy level.

Reviewed at AMC Van Ness 1000, San Francisco, May 13, 2017. MPAA rating: PG. Running time: 91 MIN.

• Production: A 20th Century Fox release of a Fox 2000 pictures presentation of a Color Force production in association with TSG Entertainment. Producers: Nina Jacobsen, Brad Simpson. Executive producers: Jeff Kinney, Timothy M. Bourne, David Bowers.
• Crew: Director: David Bowers. Screenplay: Jeff Kinney, Bowers, based on the book by Kinney. Camera (color, widescreen, HD): Anthony B. Richmond. Editor: Tony Takaki. Music: Edward Shearmur.
• With: Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott, Charlie Wright, Owen Asztalos, Dylan Walters, Wyatt Walters, Chris Coppola, Joshua Hoover.

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Long Haul Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid - the Long Haul (Book 9) Paperback – January 16, 2016

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• Part of Series Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Print length 236 pages
• Language English
• Lexile measure 1000L
• Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.57 inches
• Publisher PENGUIN
• Publication date January 16, 2016
• ISBN-10 0141354224
• ISBN-13 978-0141354224
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Jeff Kinney is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and five-time Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award winner for Favorite Book. Jeff has been named one of Time magazine s 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also the creator of Poptropica, which was named one of Time magazine s 50 Best Websites. He spent his childhood in the Washington, D.C., area and moved to New England in 1995. Jeff lives with his wife and two sons in Plainville, Massachusetts, where he owns a bookstore, An Unlikely Story."

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ PENGUIN (January 16, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141354224
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141354224
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 11 years, from customers
• Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1000L
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.57 inches
• #1,966 in Children's Humorous Comics & Graphic Novels
• #4,977 in Children's School Issues

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Jeff kinney.

Jeff Kinney is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of the 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' and 'Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid' series. He is a six-time Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award winner for 'Favorite Book' and has been named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also the creator of Poptropica, which was named one of Time’s 50 Best Websites. He spent his childhood in the Washington, D.C., area and later moved to New England where he and his wife own a bookstore, 'An Unlikely Story'.

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