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''Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever'' is a 2011 bestselling and award winning children's book and the sixth book in the ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' series, written by American author Jeff Kinney.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2016801608_kidsbooks19.html?prmid=head_more )〕 The book was released on November 15, 2011 and was the fastest selling book of 2011,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/6-Million-Copies-Were-Printed-Diary-Wimpy-Kid-Cabin-Fever-37257.html )〕 giving him the third strongest opening week sales for a children's author.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15857728 )〕 ''Cabin Fever'' had a first printing run of six million copies, which Amulet Books stated was one of their most significant titles for that year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/47633-next-wimpy-kid-book-to-get-six-million-copy-first-printing.html )〕 In 2012 Kinney won a "Best Author" ''Children's Choice Award'' from the Children's Book Council for ''Cabin Fever''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/894496-312/kinney_selznick_nab_childrens_choice.html.csp )〕 The book was followed by 2012's ''The Third Wheel''. ==Plot== Greg's problems regarding the arrival of Christmas and the concept of Santa Claus's surveillance of good or bad children and pondering as to how this could be. His mother stumbles upon a doll known as "Santa's Scout" and uses it as a tool to prompt her children into good behavior; however, Greg's paranoia regarding the subject of the doll is taken advantage of by Rodrick, who uses it to prank his brother. Meanwhile, Greg is preoccupied with a gaming website known as "Net Kritterz" and tending to the needs of his virtual pet and the website's required paid features. So he and Rowley devise various moneymaking ideas, which all backfire or fail. They soon decide to publish their own tabloid newspaper called the Neighborhood Tattler, but find difficulties in selling and advertising it, (Greg tries to sell it at school but the papers get confiscated by Vice Principal Roy,) and Greg fears that Rowley's additions to the newspaper will only damage their chances of selling copies even further. Temporarily, they abandon their project to start their own holiday bazaar after Greg buys "Drummies" (which are actually just pieces of fried chicken) at his local supermarket that are cheaper than the ones sold at his school's holiday bazaar, and decide to hang up posters advertising the bazaar on the walls of the school on a rainy day. However, the colored ink on the posters melts through into the brick walls, and the boys' antics are witnessed and published in the community newspaper, as their attempts at advertisement have inadvertently vandalized the school. Fears of being discovered fill Greg with paranoia, worrying that he will be arrested, and dreads the day where his identity will be unveiled. Eventually Rowley snaps and informs the school via an anonymous tip they were the ones who accidentally vandalized the school, but doesn't admit his involvement. it was him it says, Greg confesses to his and Rowley's responsibility with the accidental vandalism. Vice principal Roy gives him a choice: Greg could name the "Me" person and both take the punishment together or Greg could take the punishment himself. Greg decides it be best to take it himself, and that it would be to clean the walls, but then Greg finds out that the real punishment is a trip to the police station. A sudden blizzard isolates the Heffleys within their home, resulting in a power outage that spoils their food and causes a basement flood. Frank, Greg's father, in the meantime, is stranded at a hotel near his own workplace, and the family lives in hunger and boredom for the following few days until Rowley comes over and reveals to Greg that his house still has electricity along with the rest of the town with the exception of apparently Greg's own household. A quizzical Greg checks the family's electricity box, only to find that the power has been shut off in all rooms of the house excluding Manny's bedroom, and soon discovers that Manny has been living luxuriously in his bedroom surrounded by food, warmth, and toys without notifying his family because nobody taught him how to tie his shoes. The electricity is returned to the house, and Frank calls the family telling them the roads have been cleared and he returns with food for his family. The following day is Christmas and Greg discovers himself on the cover of the newspaper for anonymously shoveling the walk-way leading up to the Church (however, only to recover a tag he'd hung upon the giving tree requesting money) that allows a soup kitchen to be opened, and he chooses to exploit himself on the front cover of his own tabloid newspaper in order to receive gifts that people may send to him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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