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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dork diaries is a great book for the age it says. it is a book about a girl named Nikki and she deals with the ups and downs of her school. one book that i have to say is very funny.

i love this book and nikki maxwell is my favorite character in the book.

this book is amazing!! it is so good! it is about this girl is new to a school and she doesn't have any friends and then these two girls come up to her and start talking to her and then they become good friends

Nikki is a girl that I thought would be similar to me because I home school and was thinking about going to a private school. The book is a good idea, but I do not like the way Nikki writes about herself and her parents in the diary. I wish she had more of the dorkiness of someone beyond awesome! I could not connect with Nikki. Nikki is boy crazy and is always wanting stuff. If she is smart, she makes us look bad. The words were sometimes really confusing, mean and hurtful. Not a book I will read the others in the series.

It was rally good. But a little sad. I have read every last one down the the last letter THEY ARE SOOOOO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I am sad that here are not more.

I DONT CARE I DONT CARE

i love dork diares

This book tells the stories of a not-so-perfect girl named Nikki. she goes to a boarding school and makes two friends and an enemy. Her besties are Chloe and Zoey. They help her through everything.

Rachel Renee Russell starts the adventure of Nikki Maxwell with this book. As Nikki attends a new private school, due to her dad's extermination contract, Nikki does everything in her power to prevent people from finding out. She makes new friends, Chloe Garcia, and Zoey Franklin who help throughout the story, whether it's defending her from Mackenzie, helping her with the Avant-Garde competition, our spying on her and Brandon Roberts, you know they'll be there. IN the end, Nikki learns that it's cool to be a dork! I give this book five stars because Russell uses humor and things many of us could relate to too tell the story.

This is such and awesome book. This author is so awesome. It is about a kid named Nikki Maxewell and her school West Country Day High School(I think that is the name).

This is one of my FAVORITE authors of all time! Her books are amazing and she really makes me feel like it's actually Nikki writing in her diary. This book is about a girl named Nikki Maxwell, and she just moved so she has to go to a different middle school.While in this middle school, lots of things happen. She meets her two BFF's named Chloe and Zoey, she finds her prince charming (Brandon), and she meets the middle school mean girl, Mackenzie. In her diary there are tons of stories, all summarizing how her day was. One of these stories include Nikki going against Mackenzie in an art contest. If it weren't for this book coming out I wouldn't be reading the whole series, and that would be terrible! I'm very thankful that this amazing book was published.

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