By SLJ Staff October 17, 2011

Dairy of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever (Amulet), the sixth book in Jeff Kinney's bestselling series, goes on sale November 15-and to coincide with this event the author is hitting the road to offer fans and an unprecedented east coast book tour.

Lucky kids in New Jersey, Washington, DC, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida will help celebrate the 6-million-copy release of Cabin Fever, which deals with the Heffley family being trapped indoors after an unexpected blizzard. Taking cues from the new book's storyline, the unique traveling snowstorm will feature real snow made on-site at each event by the Wimpy Kid snow truck, custom-designed Wimpy Kid games, winter-weather refreshments, and more.

"We wanted to do something really special to celebrate the release of Cabin Fever, which has a winter theme," says Kinney. "We thought it would be a lot of fun to travel down the coast with a snow-making truck and to create an instant blizzard at our big stops. We're especially excited to visit places where the kids have never seen snow!"

With the release of Cabin Fever, there will be more than 58 million copies of the "Wimpy Kid" series in print in North America.

Thousands of fans are expected to attend the six snow-filled events. The Wimpy Kid Rolling Blizzard tour starts November 15 at the Barnes & Noble in Cherry Hill, NJ. It continues south to Politics & Prose in Washington DC, on November 16, followed by bggb books in Richmond, VA, on November 17. Be on the look out for the tour bus at Park Road Books in Charlotte, NC, on November 18, followed by Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, GA, on November 19. Everything culminates at the Miami Book Festival on Sunday, November 20.

Kinney will also speak to school groups on behalf of booksellers along the route and sign books at the Books-A-Million store in Kissimmee, FL, on November 21. Free tickets are limited and the distribution is handled by each store.

Here's the 2011 Wimpy Kid Rolling Blizzard Schedule:

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

4:00 p.m. Launch Event at Barnes & Noble

911 Haddonfield Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002

(856) 910-8771

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

4:00 p.m. Politics and Prose

5015 Connecticut Avenue NW

Washington D.C. 20008-2024

(202) 364-1919

Thursday, November 17, 2011

4:00 p.m. bggb books

The Science Museum of Virginia, 2500 West Broad Street

Richmond, VA 23220

(804) 353-5675

Friday, November 18, 2011

4:00 p.m. Park Road Books, 4139 Park Road

Charlotte, NC 28209

(704) 525-9239

Saturday, November 19, 2011

12:00 p.m. Little Shop of Stories

133A East Court Square

Decatur, GA 30030

(404) 373-6300

Sunday, November 20, 2011

12 p.m. Miami Book Festival,

Books sold through Books And Books

(305) 442-4408

Monday, November 21, 2011

4:00 p.m. Books-A-Million Book Signing Only

2605 West Osceola Parkway

Kissimmee, FL 34741

(407) 552-0077