![]() It’s been sitting there for over a year, but the teenagers make Rowley eat it. They are on the same basketball court where the dreaded cheese of the infamous Cheese Touch sits, moldy and spoiled. Other students gather, anticipating a fight, but that is prevented when a group of teenagers arrive–the same teenagers that Rowley taunted at Greg’s insistence on Halloween. Greg is angry with Rowley for taking over the job as cartoonist and confronts him about it on the basketball court. He later loses interest, and Rowley takes over the job. In a popularity-boost, he manages to get the job as the cartoonist for his school paper-but he hid applications he thought surpassed his in order to get it. Greg accidentally breaks Rowley’s hand with a football in another scene. He creates a haunted house in his friend Rowley Jefferson’s basement, which gets him into trouble. In the school play, he refuses to sing because his brother filmed the performance. Greg’s adventures over the course of his school year range from bad to good in his quest for popularity. He’s determined that this year, he will be popular. As the last person “infected” with the Cheese Touch moved away over the summer–and Greg attributes the move to the harm to that student’s reputation–he fears the game’s resurgence. He writes about the Cheese Touch, a cooties-like game that originated in his previous school year. The book opens at the start of Greg’s first year of middle school. This particular story seeks to impart lessons learned at this age, such as loyalty. Told through a series of journal entries, this is an epistolary story. On a deeper level, the story is about his relationship with his family and his best friend in his quest for popularity.
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