Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Book 2) characters

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The narrator, back for a new school year of journal-keeping. This time his biggest problem lives at home: his older brother Rodrick knows about something embarrassing that happened to Greg over the summer and holds it over him for the whole book.

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Greg's teenage older brother and the drummer of the band Loded Diper. He torments Greg constantly and wields an embarrassing summer secret as leverage, though the brothers are briefly drawn together when they share a secret of their own.

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Greg's loyal, good-natured best friend, whose enthusiasm for things Greg finds babyish continues to embarrass him.

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Greg's toddler brother, still indulged by their parents and still, in Greg's view, untouchable.

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Greg's father, who has little patience for Rodrick's band or his sons' laziness.

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Greg's mother, who launches a homemade reward scheme called Mom Bucks to encourage chores and good behaviour, and who wants her sons to get along.