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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSGreg Heffley's birthday is this Saturday, and he still has not figured out what to wish for. His mom seems oddly wrapped up in a pie baking contest at the church, brushing off his birthday questions every time he brings them up, and Greg starts to suspect she is planning something bigger than a plate of pie. At the comic shop, he learns about the Three-Eyed Theeble, a wildly rare trading card that was mistakenly printed with an extra eye and could be worth a hundred thousand dollars, and that an online group calling itself the Three-Eyed Theeble Hunters believes the only copy is hiding in a store within fifty miles of his house. When Greg convinces his mom to throw him a big birthday party, he has a secret plan of his own: use the cash and gifts to buy up every pack of MicroCreatures cards he can find before someone else claims the prize. Between arguments over bouncy houses, a mystery entertainer, and a guest list that keeps growing, Greg's birthday bash turns into something far bigger, and far stranger, than he planned.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book does a woman cheerfully announce a gift by saying, "It's a nose-hair trimmer!"?
✓ Answer
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper by Jeff Kinney
The book opens on a dismal grown-up birthday party to make Greg's point that adult birthdays are where the fun goes to die. Once you are grown, he figures, people stop buying you toys and start buying you grooming products and dress shirts.
- First half
In what book does a family's calendar get hauled away stuck to a broken refrigerator?
✓ Answer
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper by Jeff Kinney
This is the reason the whole family forgot. Mom keeps the entire family schedule on the fridge calendar, and it went out the door with the old refrigerator, so when she filled in the new one she wrote down the pie contest and missed the birthday.
- First half
In what book does a comics shop hang a wanted poster for a Three-Eyed Theeble?
✓ Answer
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper by Jeff Kinney
Greg is at the register with an armload of new comics when the poster behind the counter catches his eye. The shop guy explains that a Theeble normally has only two eyes and that the misprinted card could go for a hundred thousand dollars.
- Second half
In what book is there a breakfast cereal shaped like miniature lungs and kidneys?
✓ Answer
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper by Jeff Kinney
After parents complained about sugar, the kids' show dropped Cupcake Gobbler and canceled his frosted cereal. Heath Healthybody took over the show and the cereal box, and Greg gave the new organ shaped pieces exactly one try.
- Second half
In what book does a boy lure a personal injury lawyer over by claiming he slipped and fell?
✓ Answer
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper by Jeff Kinney
Greg wants a celebrity in his VIP section, and the second most famous person around is Barry Haspel, the scowling lawyer on billboards all over town. Greg rewrites the invitation as a fake injury claim, and it works, because Haspel actually shows up.
- Near the end
In what book does a deer leap onto a deck and launch presents and folding chairs everywhere?
✓ Answer
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper by Jeff Kinney
Something in the neighbor's jungle of a yard sent the lawn mowing crew running, and Greg was sure it was a gorilla. It was a deer, and once it got trapped on the crowded deck it bucked like a bronco and flattened the cake and the presents.
