Rowley Jefferson



Rowley Jefferson is the protagonist of the series. He is also the deuteragonist in the Wimpy Kid books. He is a gullible middle-school student who is very polite and always wants the best for his friends.

Biography
It is unknown what state Rowley was born in but it is known that he was born in the US to Linda and Robert Jefferson.

Moving Onto Surrey Street
Robert got another job somewhere else so the family had to move to Surrey Street. Linda had bought Rowley a book about making friends in new places. Rowley tried to tell a joke to Greg Heffley but Greg told his mum that there was a 'weird kid' at the door. Nevertheless, the two became friends.

Rowley told Greg that he lived at the new house up the top of the hill. Greg told him that before the their lot was empty, he planted a flag there and he owned everything in Rowley's house. Greg then started using Rowley's things but when Rowley told his dad, Robert, he made Greg give back Rowley's bike.

The Ghost of Bampy
Rowley and his family went to stay in Grandpa Jefferson's log cabin. Grandpa had died a while before that. Rowley used to always call Grandpa 'Bampy' because he couldn't say grandpa when he was younger but nobody let him change it. While Robert was out at the shops, Rowley was in the bath and he heard footsteps coming along the hallway. At first he thought it was Robert but then the door opened to reveal nobody. Rowley's explanation was that it was the Ghost of Bampy.

Middle School Years
During Rowley's first 'play date' with Greg, Manny, Greg's younger brother, pulled down his pants and showed Rowley his bottom. Now, whenever Rowley was with Manny, the three year old acted like they have a big secret which made Rowley feel uncomfortable.

When Rowley went to Greg's for his first sleepover, he was nervous since he had not even been sleeping in his own bed. Linda then told Rowley that he could take Carrots with him. Greg told Rowley about a half goat-half man that lived in the forest and at that moment, there was a howl outside the window and the two ran towards the laundry room and locked themselves in there. The two soon found out that it was Rodrick but Rowley had wet his pants so he had to go home.

Rowley and Greg were invited to Tevin Larkin's birthday party and they were the only two kids invited. At the party, they watched a movie about a guy who could turn into several animals. Tevin wanted to watch it again but Rowley and Greg wouldn't have it so Tevin started acting like an animal and tearing stuff down. Rowley and Greg retreated into the back garden where Rowley fell in a ditch with a hornets nest in it. That resulted in Greg and Rowley being taken home. While Rowley and Greg were playing vikings and ninjas, two teenagers made fun of them so Rowley and Greg went further into the woods. They made a fort in case the teens came along again but as they did, Rowley tripped over a rock and hurt his ankle. Greg told him that they had disturbed an ancient burial ground before running off. Robert and Linda phoned Greg to see where Rowley was and he told them. Linda and Robert found Rowley in the woods.

Rowley and Greg were over at Rowley's house playing video games and Greg told him about a burglar who was going about robbing people's houses. Greg then left the house. Rowley heard footsteps upstairs, thinking it was the burglar, he ran into the garage. The burglar followed him. Rowley whacked him with a tennis racket before running to the next house and telling Mrs Monroe that he was being robbed. Rowley then found out that it was Greg playing a prank on him. Greg and Rowley were walking home from school and it had rained so there was a lot of slugs about. Greg got a slug on a stick and chased Rowley with it, who jumped on a rock so that he couldn't be caught. Greg tried to get Rowley but he fell and held onto the rock before he could fall in the puddle. Rowley felt bad so he tried to help Greg but he accidently pushed him in the puddle.

During a Saturday in the Autumn season, Rowley and Greg were supposed to hang out but Greg couldn't because he had to clean his garage. He then said that if Rowley helped, they could do it twice as fast! Greg bribed Rowley into doing it by promising half of his Halloween candy. Rowley accepted because his parents went through his candy last Halloween and only gave him three pieces. After cleaning the garage, Greg gave the candy to Rowley only for them to find that Greg had eaten it all. Rowley threatened to tell Susan, Greg's mom, that he ate all the candy, Greg then made a Good Boy Award for Rowley, telling him that Good Boy Awards were really special. For the next few weeks, Greg would give Rowley a Good Boy Award every time Rowley did a chore. Eventually, the Good Boy Awards were getting less special because Greg wasn't putting as much effort as he did on the first ones. Eventually, Rowley didn't want them any more until Greg mentioned a new Good Boy Award that was even better. Rowley then raked the yard so that he could get the new Super Good Boy Award. Rowley got it and was blown away. Then, he earned so many that he didn't want them anymore but Greg would just come up with something new every time and Rowley would really want the awards. Then, Rowley didn't want anymore at all because he wasn't getting his own chores done. Greg told him that he didn't care because he made a new system called L'il Goodies that was a points system. Greg said that once you get fifty L'il Goodies you get a Fantastic Prize. Rowley spent a month getting fifty L'il Goodies but when he was going to get his prize, Greg said that since it was the first day of the next month all the L'il Goodies were reset. Rowley got mad and yanked the cloth covering the Fantastic Prize only to reveal a basket with Greg's dirty clothes. Rowley and Greg teamed up for a maths test together and so they went to the library to research the chapter of the maths book. Once they got out their books, Rowley suggested that they started to practice the problems but Greg said he hadn't even read the chapter. Rowley didn't want to so Greg decided that they should take a break. Rowley tried to get back to studying but Greg started to tease Rowley. For a while, the two managed to actually do some studying until Greg insulted Rowley's method for remembering the area of a circle. Greg said he wanted another break and they played video games until a grown-up told the librarian that they were making too much noise. Then, they made up a language of noises if they needed to ask each other questions during the maths quiz. Rowley said it was cheating to do that during the quiz. Greg replied saying that Rowley was in love with Ms Beck. Greg started singing about Rowley studying so Rowley went to the bathrooms but Greg followed him there. The librarian was alerted that they were making noise in the bathroom so she made them come out. For a while, Rowley got some studying done until Greg started passing Rowley notes. Rowley got up from his seat and sat at another table but Greg didn't know and he tied another man's shoe laces together and when he stood up he fell over. Rowley and Greg ran into the children's section to study. Greg started throwing pieces of paper into the bin but kept missing. He told Rowley that he bet he couldn't throw it in the bin so Rowley got a bit of paper and through it in the bin while sitting backwards. Greg said that was luck but Rowley 'retired' from doing it. Greg started trying to throw paper in the bin backwards but he couldn't and he started tearing up Rowley's notes and throwing them in. Rowley tried to pick up all his notes but Greg bounced a ball of paper on his head and it fell in the bin. That made Rowley mad and he chased Greg with the egg. The librarian made them call their parents. During the test, Timothy Lautner got stressed out and Ms Beck had to take him to the nurse. Greg leaned over to Rowley's test paper to 'check his answers' but soon, Rowley noticed that he was copying him. It was too late to stop him. Once Ms Beck gave the results of the test, she told Rowley and Greg to stay in her classroom while everyone else left. She told them that she knows that Greg copied Rowley. She gave Greg a detention and told Rowley that she was disappointed. Rowley got upset and hugged her.

In science, the teacher, Mrs Modi had a baby so an old man named Mr Hardy came in to replace her. He just wrote the task on the board and then sat at his desk reading. Eventually, the other kids started goofing around and he didn't notice. Rowley was the only one who was doing the task. Greg told him that he was wasting his time because Mr Hardy was never going to look at the assignments. Rowley still done it and on the day of the results, Mr Hardy gave everyone a c, even the kids who didn't hand it in. Mr Hardy gave Rowley a c as well but then, Greg stood up and made Mr Hardy change his decision. Rowley then got a b.

Rowley went over to Greg's house and they weren't aloud to play video games. Susan brought pens and paper and said that they should write or draw. The two decided to make their own comic. They wanted to make a superhero and they had come up with ideas but they weren't that good. Greg decided that they each come up with a superhero and they'll decide which one is best. Rowley came up with Amazing Guy and Greg came up with InterGalactic Man. Greg laughed at Rowley's hero and they came up with a comic of the two heroes fighting, which Rowley won.

Rowley was invited to a double-sleepover with Greg and they played for a while until Greg said that they should jump of Joseph O'Rourke's trampoline while he was asleep (as it was the middle of the night). They did but Rowley shouted "wheeee!" and the O'Rourke's were woken up. They ran back and got into a big arguement. The arguement lasted the whole sleepover. Rowley's parents came to pick him up around lunch.

Greg told Rowley that he should make his new diary into Greg's biography and so Rowley wrote down all the events that have just been listed and showed Greg, didn't like it and whapped Rowley in the face with the biography. That made Rowley mad so he whapped Greg and Greg fell into a puddle. Greg then chased Rowley home with a stick.

Sometime later, Rowley decided to make his own fantasy novel, starring 'Roland' a self-insert of Rowley. When Rowley showed the first chapter of his novel to Greg, Greg didn't like it and decided to help him with the story. However, Greg was being over-bearing and was making Rowley add things that he didn't want to so Rowley told him that it was just for fun, making Greg leave the project. But when Rowley finished the novel and showed it to Greg, his best friend loved it and said that they should make it into a Christmas book.

He later made a book full of his 'spooky stories'.

Personality
Rowley is a kind and innocent person. He has a pure heart and is not aware that Greg is just using him to achieve his goals. If a reward is put on the table, Rowley will do anything to get it. He is a teacher's pet and cares about school work.

Appearances

 * Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (First appearance)
 * Diary of Greg Heffley's Best Friend (First appearance in the Rowley series)
 * Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal (First canon appearance in the Rowley series)
 * Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly ADVENTURE
 * Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories