Rowley Jefferson (Awesome Friendly Kid) · Book 1

Diary of Greg Heffley's Best Friend

Published
1 January 2018
Pages
112
ISBN-13
9781338316582
Type
short
Cover of Diary of Greg Heffley's Best Friend

About this book

Diary of Greg Heffley's Best Friend is a short World Book Day tie-in by Jeff Kinney, published in 2018 at 112 pages, narrated by Rowley Jefferson from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Kinney expanded it the following year into Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal, which follows it here.

Key facts about Diary of Greg Heffley's Best Friend

Jeff Kinney wrote Diary of Greg Heffley's Best Friend, a short story on our list. It has been out since 2018. The book has 112 pages.

We list 2 editions of this short story. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781338316582 to find the main one.

Diary of Greg Heffley's Best Friend is book 1 of 5 in the Rowley Jefferson (Awesome Friendly Kid) series. The series has 5 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2 is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 11 August 2026.

Additionally, Jeff Kinney writes Diary of a Wimpy Kid as a separate series. Those series sit on our humor shelf. Meanwhile, Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2 is the latest published Jeff Kinney book on file, from 11 August 2026.

About Jeff Kinney

Jeff Kinney is an American author and cartoonist best known for creating Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the wildly popular illustrated middle-grade series narrated by Greg Heffley, a wry, self-deprecating middle-schooler navigating the everyday humiliations of school, family, and friendship. See every Jeff Kinney book in order.

Its place in Rowley Jefferson (Awesome Friendly Kid)

Diary of Greg Heffley's Best Friend is book 1 in the Rowley Jefferson (Awesome Friendly Kid) series. It is followed by Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal. See the full Rowley Jefferson (Awesome Friendly Kid) reading order.

Rowley Jefferson -- Greg Heffley's loyal, easily-excitable best friend from Diary of a Wimpy Kid -- gets his own diary in this spinoff series, and the results are pointedly different from Greg's. Where Greg schemes and complains his way through middle school, Rowley is cheerfully oblivious, endlessly kind, and prone to wildly overselling ordinary events as epic adventures, which makes his version of shared events with Greg land as a funny, good-natured contrast to the original series' more cynical voice. Jeff…

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