It's Only Temporary by Sally Warner

So this was a fun, enjoyable read.  Kind of a cross between Harriet the Spy and the much heralded Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but unless I post my review, It's Only Temporary has zero reviews on Amazon while Diary of a Wimpy Kid has 143.  Why is this?  I don't think it's price.  Sure, It's Only Temporary is $3 more, but it's still within the price range of most intermediate hardcovers.  Both have quirky cartoon art, and both novels chronicle the day to day life of their middle school-aged protagonists.  The only major difference that I can see is that It's Only Temporary has a female main character while Diary of a Wimpy Kid has a male protagonist.  I know that it's harder to get boys to read, but I don't think that means It's Only Temporary deserves less attention because it's a story about a girl.  It's not as if Jeff Kinney is the first author to write a story about a whiny, sarcastic young boy.  I mean in many ways isn't it just a more realistic step up from Captain Underpants?  It seems to me that boys and girls have similar feelings about school life, and I have a pretty good example from which to pull this observation since I have a twin brother.  Sure, how we responded to situations was often different but if asked our feelings about a particular event, we often felt the same.  When I liked a boy and he didn't like me back, I was sad.  When my brother liked a girl who didn't like him back, he was sad too.  I'm not saying that I didn't like Diary of a Wimpy Kid.  It was hilarious, but does it deserve to be called ground-breaking just because it's told from the perspective of a guy?  No, and I certainly hope that as my sons get older, it won't be shoved down their throats as required reading just because it's an illustrated book about a guy.  I'd like to think our education system can do better by all boys.