Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life

Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life

By Rachel Renée Russell

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Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 4 - 7n/a5.429745

Meet Nikki Maxwell! She’s starting eighth grade at a new school—and her very first diary packed with hilarious stories and art in this SUPER SQUEE updated edition of Book One of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!

Nikki confesses all in her first diary ever: her epic battle with her mom for an iPhone, meeting her new soon-to-be BFFs Chloe and Zoey, falling for adorably sweet crush Brandon, dealing with her zany little sister Brianna’s antics—and the immediate clashes with mean girl Mackenzie, who becomes Nikki’s rival in a schoolwide art competition.

Nearly 30 million books in print worldwide!

Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN-13: 9781416980063
ISBN-10: 1416980067
Published on 6/2/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304

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This Dork Diary book is about a girl named Nikki Maxwell. What we’re reading is her diary. Nikki’s life is crazy, from a tattoo shop to a mean girl, Mackenzie Hollister. At the end, she accepts herself and is proud to be a “dork”. My favorite part of this book is when Nikki’s friends, Chloe and Zoey, organized a tattoo shop to get in a program to meet famous authors. They wanted to prove their worth by charging 3 books for a tattoo and donating them to charity. My favorite character is Nikki. She is a great artist. She’s the one who drew the tattoos with her lucky pen. I recommend this book to all girls who are proud to call themselves a “dork” too,

A book with humor, this book tells a fun story about a girl in middle school, who experiences memories with her friends and enemies, and writes them down in her diary.

This Dork Diary book is about a girl named Nikki Maxwell. What we’re reading is her diary. Nikki’s life is crazy, from a tattoo shop to a mean girl, Mackenzie Hollister. At the end, she accepts herself and is proud to be a “dork”. My favorite part of this book is when Nikki’s friends, Chloe and Zoey, organized a tattoo shop to get in a program to meet famous authors. They wanted to prove their worth by charging 3 books for a tattoo and donating them to charity. My favorite character is Nikki. She is a great artist. She’s the one who drew the tattoos with her lucky pen. When she was going to sign up for advanced art competition, she was shy and started clucking like a chicken. Feeling humiliated, she accidently signed up to be the Librarian’s Student Assistant. But Chloe and Zoey signed Nikki up for the competition and she wins a $500 prize. I recommend this book to all girls who are proud to call themselves a “dork” too,

I liked this book because it was funny. The main characters sister was funny. I had fun reading it. I would recommend for someone to read it if they like funny books about kids in elementary school.

I love the Dork Diaries series. The books are so relatable. Nikki just pushes through everyting and she does her best. Keep writing those books, Rachel!

OK if you like The Princes Diaries, your gonna love this book. The main character, Nikki has moved to a new middle school and Nothing is going smoothly. The most poplar girl( most mean girl is more like it ) hates her guts for no reason in particular it seems. And then there's this boy named Brandon ( with the best hair ), maybe he likes her. If Nikki can just win the art contest at school, she thinks all her problems will be solved. But then she has so many problems just with that. Now I won't tell you everything, you'll just have to read it your self.

This is such a funny book! The drawings are very funny, and so are all the characters. I like it a lot, but don't necessarily recommend it. The plot is a little cliche, and it gets a little boring after a while, because each book is basically the same as the lost with different wording choice. You have your mean popular girl, your main guy, your main shy girl... It's not that original and has near to no description. But if you want a light read, this is good for you.

I didn't care for this book. I think the characters treat each other poorly. The girl, Nikki, will do anything to get popular and the girls are mean to each other. I would not recommend this book!

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i love this book but i only have 1 and 11 which I like but not as much as book 12

This book is very funny and exciting. The book is made so it's in a diary format. So you feel like your reading someone's diary, how cool is that?!?!!?! Anyway, there is a girl named Nikki and she just joined a new school, and there's this girl named MacKenzie who is a popular, and this book is about her life. This book is AMAZING!

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