In this book the third to the last greg finds himself falling below the bar his popularity levels are going down his luck none his ideas not possible and even worse hes stuick with his brothers and his blind mom because thiers a blizzard.Hes dealing with seventh grade problems and house problems to greg also finds his sibilings true colors like manny leaving his family in despair with him messing with the house breakers and putting heat in his room and leaving his family cold now he has to sleep with his mom and his brother in the same room in the same presents o0n the same bed on the same couch because its that cold while manny is in mystery land frozen meals a night while manny and gregs dad are living it while all that hes dealing with criminal issues they put illegeal posters on private property and kinda of got caughtthe newspapers had there names and everything an greg was freaking out he was hiding and keeping a low profile but the school is calling names to the office so he has to keep his fingers crossed but he eventually gets called but makes it by a hair hethought the police were on to him so the blizzard helped in one way after the blizzard everything is pretty much normal.