Behold the cover of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck.” It is lime green. It features Wimpy Kid Greg Heffley being tormented by eight balls. It’s the eighth book in Jeff Kinney’s ...

Mark your calendars, Wimpy Kid fans: Book 12 of Jeff Kinney’s wildly popular cartoon series for kids goes on sale Nov. 7. What do we know so far? The book’s cover (with a title) won’t be ...

Click here to visit the Wimpy Kid website. The next installment in NPR's Backseat Book Club heads back to where this all started: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney.