The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 13)

by Jeff Kinney

  neighborhood, so Mitchell Pickett’s been enjoying

  the snowmobile he bought with all the money he

  made this winter.

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  So anybody who says that war doesn’t PAY should

  think AGAIN.

  Mitchell’s not the ONLY one who made out,

  though. Trevor Nix has been playing hockey down

  at the bottom of the hill with the Lower Surrey

  Street kids every day after school. So I guess

  that’s what you get for being a TRAITOR.

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  But I’m not gonna complain. I’m just glad I

  made it through the winter without getting myself

  KILLED.

  The thing I learned about myself is that I’m

  just not the HERO type. Trust me, I’m glad

  there are people like that out there, but the

  world needs guys like ME, too.

  Because if human beings are still around 500

  million years from now, it’s gonna be thanks to

  the Greg Heffleys of the world who figured out a

  way to SURVIVE.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Thanks to everyone at Abrams, especially Charlie Kochman, who

  makes every book better. Big thanks to Michael Jacobs, Andrew

  Smith, Chad W. Beckerman, Liz Fithian, Hallie Patterson, Steve

  Tager, Melanie Chang, Mary O’Mara, Alison Gervais, and Elisa

  Garcia. Thanks also to Susan Van Metre and Steve Roman.

  Thanks to the great Wimpy Kid team: Shaelyn Germain, Anna

  Cesary, and Vanessa Jedrej. Thanks to Deb Sundin and the staff at

  An Unlikely Story.

  Thanks to Rich Carr and Andrea Lucey for your support and

  friendship. Thanks to Paul Sennott for all your help. Thanks to Sylvie

  Rabineau and Keith Fleer for everything you do for me.

  Thanks to Jess Brallier for your mentorship and for getting me

  started as an author.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Jeff Kinney is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and a six-

  time Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award winner for Favorite Book.

  Jeff has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential

  People in the World. He is also the creator of Poptropica, which was

  named one of Time’s 50 Best Websites. He spent his childhood in

  the Washington, D.C., area and moved to New England in 1995. Jeff

  lives with his wife and two sons in Massachusetts, where they own

  a bookstore, An Unlikely Story.