Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid Books in Order

The Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid books turn the Wimpy Kid universe around and hand the pen to Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley’s best friend. Where Greg’s voice is sarcastic and self‑protective, Rowley’s narration is open, literal and endlessly hopeful, which makes the same world feel very different.

In the first book, Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, Rowley starts a journal simply because Greg has one. Greg quickly decides this new notebook should be his official biography, and Rowley tries to oblige. He writes about meeting Greg in fourth grade, sleepovers gone wrong, odd pranks and school mishaps, all while honestly recording how confused he often feels by Greg’s schemes. The joke—and the heart of the book—is that Rowley keeps drifting away from Greg’s version of the story and back to his own.

That mix of sweetness and chaos carries into Diary of Greg Heffley’s Best Friend, a shorter World Book Day story that acts as an early window into Rowley’s point of view. It sketches the same off‑kilter friendship in a smaller package, and many of its ideas later bloom into the full Awesome Friendly Kid journal.

In Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure, Rowley decides to write a full‑blown fantasy novel about a nervous hero named Roland and his hulking companion Garg. After every chapter, Greg chimes in with “helpful” notes about marketing, tie‑in toys and how to make things more extreme. The result is a story inside a story: an adventure about wizards, monsters and quests, and a quieter tale about a kid learning to trust his own imagination.

Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories shifts gears again, this time into a collection of short, gently creepy tales. Rowley introduces werewolves, mummies, zombies, skeletons and ghosts in bite‑sized episodes that stay more silly than scary. A final story, where he becomes convinced Greg is possessed by a demon, underlines just how easily Rowley’s good nature can be exploited.

Taken together, the Awesome Friendly books give readers a warmer, sometimes sharper picture of Greg and his world. They highlight the ways a best friend can be generous, gullible, frustrated and devoted all at once. The tone is a little softer than the main Wimpy Kid series, which makes these titles a good fit for slightly younger readers or anyone who prefers a kinder narrator.

You don’t have to read the original series first to enjoy Rowley’s journals, but fans of Greg’s diary will catch extra jokes and echoes. Read on their own, they work as quick, funny graphic novels about storytelling, friendship, and what it’s like to live in someone else’s shadow.