In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.

Terri Rayburn is a girl with a reputation. She doesn't deserve it, but having grown up on the outskirts of Summer Hill, Virginia, she knows how small towns work. The only way to deal with vicious gossip is to ignore it. So she keeps to herself as she runs the summer resort on Lake Kissel. When she returns home from a short trip to find a handsome stranger living in her house, she smells a rat. Someone is trying to fix her up, and she has to admit...

When Jack Frost steals three magical shells from the beaches of Rainspell Island, Joy starts to lose her ability to keep the summer vacation atmosphere nice.

Three teenage friends convey the hilarity of their awkward sexual quest and the genuine pain of growing up. Hermie is finally united with an "older woman" of 22.

When Blue Burt prepares to fly south with his other feathered companions, he and his pal Wiggles, wanting to prolong their friendship, decide to trick Mother Nature into thinking that it is still summer.

To finish summer swimming lessons, Eugene brings out his superhero alter ego, Captain Awesome, to confront the "Blobby Blob-Blob" at the deep end of the pool.

Despite reminders from Father Time and Mother Earth, Summer neglects her chores while she is on vacation.

Shermy finds his plans for a quiet, relaxing summer upended by the arrival of Shake, who moves in next door, and as they are forced to spend more and more time together, these polar opposites must learn how to get along.

"Sammy and Chocolate live between a marsh and the sea. The two friends wait eagerly until dusk...to go frogging! They've never caught one yet, but they're sure that tonight is the night! The chorus of croaks lead them to the pond, but try as they might, Sammy and Chocolate can't find any frogs at all. Eventually, they give up and lie down. And just as they're enjoying the frog-song and drifting into "frogness"-- the frogs come out flying! But zzlip!...

In 28 poems, Florian writes of hazy days, fly balls, and swimming holes.