Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules is a children’s novel by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney, based on the FunBrain.com version.
It is the sequel to Diary of a Wimpy Kid, followed by The Last Straw. The hardcover was released on February 1, 2008. Rodrick Rules was named New York Times bestseller among awards and praise. A live-action film based on the book was released on March 25, 2011, and an animated film adaptation was released on Disney+ on December 2, 2022.
The book starts with Greg explaining how bad his summer vacations were, being on the swim team and his brother Rodrick annoying him, who knows a secret that Greg is trying to keep. After Rodrick puts him in the back of his van and finds every speed bump in the town, he drops Greg off to school, but Greg finds out he still has the Cheese Touch from last year. He gets away with passing it on to a new kid.
Later, it is clear that Greg and Rodrick are always broke, so their mother Susan starts a “Mom Bucks” to get Greg and Rodrick to get along with each other. Rodrick, at first, mismanages the money on his Heavy Metal magazines, while Greg carefully and sensibly manages the cash. Rodrick has an upcoming science project, and that he would prefer to do it on ‘Gravity’, but clearly shows no effort, and asks his family members to do it for him.