Greg Heffley is not willing to be the odd man outA dance at Gregs middle school has everyone scrambling to find a partner and Greg is determined not to be left by the wayside So he concocts a desperate plan to find someonemdashanyonemdashto go with on the big nightBut Gregs schemes go hilariously awry and his only option is to attend the dance with his best friend Rowley Jefferson and a female classmate as a quotgroup of friendsquot But the night is long and anything can happen along the way Who will arrive at the dance triumphantly and who will end up being the third wheel