Greg is panicked and angered that Roy has brought in the police.

At home, Greg learns the police have paid his house a visit, but with no one home, have merely left a note. It takes him several hours, but he manages to do it. Greg refuses to identify Rowley as the co-conspirator, meaning that Greg must now clean the bricks alone. Rowley submits an anonymous note saying he and Greg are responsible for the vandalism. At school, Roy addresses the student body, demanding that the guilty parties, or anyone with any information, come forward. The newspaper carries a story about the vandalism. Greg and Rowley then flee when a teacher nearly catches them. When rain begins falling, it causes the signs to run – and green ink to stain the bricks. Greg and Rowley decide to advertise for their Bazaar by creating signs and taping them to the school wall. Greg and Rowley decide to then create their own paper to advertise their Bazaar, but Vice Principal Roy will not let them hand it out at school. Greg and Rowley discover it is too expensive to advertise in the local paper, and the local paper won’t cover their Bazaar as they deem it to not be newsworthy. Greg and Rowley decide to have a Holiday Bazaar like the school does, and will sell concession snacks, offer games, and sell gifts. His attempts at shoveling snow end in failure as he tries to use water to blast away the snow –which in turn causes a sheet of ice to build up instead. Greg immediately sets to work trying to come up with ways to earn cash. Greg asks for money to be left behind the church in an envelope request on the church’s Giving Tree, where people help one another out anonymously. Further, she reveals that Greg will have to earn his own money to buy gifts for others this year. Greg needs cash to buy his virtual pet Chihuahua various items, but his mom says she will not give him any money.

Greg spends much of his free time playing the game Net Critterz online. When the novel begins, Thanksgiving has just passed, and Greg is panicked about being as good as he can so that Santa Claus will bring him many gifts. “Cabin Fever” follows the misadventures of Greg Heffley as his attempt to earn money for Christmas gifts gets him in trouble at school just as a massive blizzard sets in. It is the sixth installment in Kinney’s “Wimpy Kid” series. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever” is a young adult novel by Jeff Kinney.

Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney