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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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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ciaobella ciaobella

I've read so many of the dork diaries, I even forgot how many I have! The series are so fantastic! Or should I say, FABtastic! get it, FAB Tastic! Hee Hee Hee!

leelee leelee

I love this book.

I had heard of this series and decided I would try them out. Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life was the best book I have ever read!!!!!!!

ciaobella ciaobella

I love these books a lot! I have 1,2,3,6,9,10, and I already read 11. It's so fab! And, one of my BFFs let me read number 4. I could just talk about this like all day! P.S. These books are so fab!

CuteySisters CuteySisters

I love this book!!!!The best one I have read!! :) :)

mistypuppydog mistypuppydog

I didn't finish the book but so far it's good my little sister got all the Dork Diaries for her birthday and she lets me read them.

I think the book is cool i haven't read it yet sorry for wasting your time.

C A D C A D

I LOVE THESE BOOKS!!!!!! Dork Diaries are my fav book series!!!!

I just love the dork daries books

"I'm such a dork"- Nikki Maxwell really wants a phone (is that even a need, Nikki?) But instead, she receives a DIARY. If someone catches you writing in a diary, they think you're a dork. Nikki said she would NEVER use the diary her mother got her. Well, she used it anyway. Another character, MacKenzie Hollister, she is like RICH. She's the most popular girl in the 8th grade. Yet, she's a bully. She takes all of Nikki's locker space. When Nikki asks her POLITELY to move, MacKenzie just ignores her. When MacKenzie hands out invitations to her birthday party, she gives 1 to Nikki, which surprises her. MacKenzie calls her "hon" and tries to ask Nikki something, and Nikki is so happy, she gets carried away. She calls MacKenzie hon back, rips open the invitation, and looks at MacKenzie to see her gasp. MacKenzie tells her that that invitation wasn't hers, it was Jessica's, the girl behind her. She says "Oh, sorry", hands it to Jessica, and is VERY embarrassed. "I can't believe you opened MY invitation." Jessica said to her. Then later, MacKenzie invites Chloe and Zoey, Nikki's best friends, and not her. When MacKenzie invites Brandon, she flirts with him, too. But Brandon just takes a look at the invitation, then stuffs it into his backpack. MacKenzie was SO mad. Then Nikki starts to like Brandon.. Then has a crush on him. At lunch, when Nikki is walking to her best friends Chloe and Zoey, Jessica trips her. She falls and spills her lunch all over herself. Brandon took a picture and put it on the cover of their school news. Nikki was really mad when she found out. She went to the janitor's room. Chloe and Zoey went after her when they found out. First, Nikki thought it was MacKenzie and her friends. But it was just her best friends. They help clean her up a bit. When they find out about this trip to NYC, they had to enter a contest on something creative that you have to do. They planned on tattoos. Chloe and Zoey loved the idea, but Nikki didn't. She was happy when she found out their moms had said no. But they weren't happy. Then Nikki got the idea to do something for the tattoo. She was going to draw with pen a design on their hands. And Nikki is really good at drawing. She also showed Brandon her drawing skills, and she was pretty red when she did. Then Chloe and Zoey came so Nikki had to leave. So did Brandon. Nikki enters a drawing contest. MacKenzie also enters. She tells Nikki that she has no chance of winning, because she's going to win. Nikki ignores her and enters anyway. She overslept and missed the bus. She almost missed her dads ride. Her dad drove her to school. MacKenzie happened to come at almost the same time. She asked Nikki she was the same Maxwell has Maxwell's Bug Experiment (I think that was the name.) Nikki felt very embarrassed. Then Nikki forget her art, and accidentally dropped it. She tried to save it from her dads truck that was driving away, but couldn't. The truck ran over her art. MacKenzie TEASED her when she dropped it! MacKenzie laughs wickedly and sashays away. Nikki HATES it when MacKenzie sashays. She sat on the sidewalk, crying I think. Then suddenly it stops raining. On her add least. She looks up and finds Brandon holding an umbrella above her. Brandon helps her up and they walk in the school, where Nikki found out someone wrote "Bug Girl" on her locker. Nikki is so mad she runs to the school office. She couldn't take it anymore. She wanted to change schools. So she called her parents and told them she wanted to change schools. Her parents come, they were going to sign her into another school. Nikki wants to look at the art winners before she goes, though. The winner was... Nikki? Nikki was so confused. She didn't submit any artwork. Then she found out her best friends Chloe and Zoey, who had happened to betrayed her, did the new artwork together. Nikki ran to the office and told her parents she still wanted to stay. They looked confused, but said ok and canceled the new school and left. Chloe and Zoey apologized to Nikki for only caring about the tattoos. Then they found out they won the contest and are going on a trip to NYC! I really liked this story. It was really funny and interesting. I couldn't put the book down! I literally begged to stay up late and read the whole thing.

Actually, Brandon doesn't put it on the front cover, what happens is that Nikki THINKS he will and that's a drawing of what she THINKS may happen, but instead, Brandon helps her pick up her food.

Wow!!! Great review @dictionary !!!!👍👍👍

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