I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons.

Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings like him share the hallways with much bigger kids who are already shaving. But nothing scared Greg more than the moldy piece of cheese on the blacktop.

Can he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, make it through the year without getting the Cheese Touch?