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Diary of a Wimpy Kid is an illustrated children's novel series and media franchise created by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The series follows Greg Heffley , a middle-schooler who illustrates his daily life in a diary (although he insists that it is a journal).
Carny is thought to have become popularized around 1931 in North America, when it was first colloquially used to describe one who works at a carnival. [2] The word carnival, originally meaning a "time of merrymaking before Lent" and referring to a time denoted by lawlessness (often ritualised under a lord of misrule figure and intended to show the consequences of social chaos), came into use ...
The first category, fictional works in diary form, lists fictional works where the story, or a major part of the story, is told in the form of a character's diary. [1] Diary form is frequently used in fiction for young adults and tweens as well as adults.
The lyrics concern a carnival worker who vanished, highlighted in the words "No one saw the Carny go". As the circus prepares to leave without the missing performer, they find the Carny's horse Sorrow, "so skin and bone", and kill it. The dwarfs Moses and Noah dig a ditch to bury it, later remarking "we should've dug a deeper one".
Stephen Watts Kearny was the fifteenth and youngest child of Philip and Susanna Watts Kearny. His father, who was of Irish ancestry (the family name had originally been O'Kearny), was a successful wine merchant and landowner in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, before the start of the American Revolution (1775–83). [3]
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a children's illustrated novel written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. It is the first book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series . The book is about a boy named Greg Heffley and his attempts to become popular in his first year of middle school.
Hey, Rube! was the title of a 1921 American silent comedy short film starring Bobby Vernon and Helen Darling. During World War II, "Hey Rube!"was the open-microphone radio call issued by Combat Air Directors on American aircraft carriers to alert USN fighters to prepare to defend a task force from enemy air-attack.
The book is written like a diary. Its protagonist is Misty Wilmot, a once-promising young artist who works as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt. According to the description on the back of Diary, Misty "soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives."