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    Dork Diaries
    Dork Diaries
    Dork Diaries
    Ebook306 pages3 hours

    Dork Diaries

    By Rachel Renee Russell

    4.5/5

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    • Friendship

    • School Life

    • Humor

    • Tattoos

    • Self-Discovery

    • Fish Out of Water

    • School Setting

    • Mean Girls

    • Love Triangle

    • Coming of Age

    • Artistic Protagonist

    • Love at First Sight

    • Misunderstandings

    • Underdog

    • Clumsy Protagonist

    • Family

    • Art

    • Personal Growth

    • High School Life

    • Family Relationships

    About this ebook

    Meet Nikki Maxwell (aka Queen of the Dorks!) in the first book in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series – now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide! 
     
    New school. New Crush. New mean girl. New diary, so Nikki can spill all! 
     
    Nikki Maxwell     has never been popular but now she’s started at a new school, she’s hoping to leave her old dorky ways behind. 
     
    Follow Nikki's adorkable life through sketches, doodles and diary entries as she shares all the details of her not-so-fabulous life full of BFF drama, hopeless crushes and an extremely cringe-worthy family. 

    With a HUGE global fanbase, Dork Diaries is the perfect series for fans of Lottie Brooks, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates. 

    Don’t miss out! I LOVE PARIS, the brand new DORK DIARIES, is out now! 

    Have you read all the DORK DIARIES series?
    Dork Diaries   
    Dork Diaries 2: Party Time  
    Dork Diaries 3: Pop Star  
    Dork Diaries 4: Skating Sensation  
    Dork Diaries 5: Dear Dork  
    Dork Diaries 6: Holiday Heartbreak  
    Dork Diaries 7: TV Star  
    Dork Diaries 8: Once Upon a Dork  
    Dork Diaries 9: Drama Queen 
    Dork Diaries 10: Puppy Love  
    Dork Diaries 11: Frenemies Forever  
    Dork Diaries 12: Crush Catastrophe  
    Dork Diaries 13: Birthday Drama 
    Dork Diaries 14: Spectacular Superstar   
    Dork Diaries 15: I Love Paris!     - Out now! 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateDec 22, 2011
    ISBN9780857076748
    Dork Diaries
    Author

    Rachel Renee Russell

    Rachel Renee Russell is a lawyer who prefers writing children's books to legal briefs (mainly because books are a lot more fun and pyjamas and bunny slippers aren't allowed in court). She has raised two daughters and lived to tell about it. Rachel lives in northern Virginia with a spoiled pet Yorkie who terrorises her daily by climing on top of her computer and pelting her with stuffed animals while she writes. And, yes, Rachel considers herself a total Dork.

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    4.5/5

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a great and amazing book. It is funny, cute, and dorky, with relatable characters. Some reviewers love the idea and recommend it to all girls. They find it awesome, legit, and lovable. However, there are a few negative reviews about the app not opening or automatically closing. Overall, this book is a lovely and amazing read that many readers enjoy.

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    • 1/5
       Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
    • 4/5
      Dork Diaries earns my approval for middle –school readers. In this book, 14 year-old Nikki Maxwell conveys her daily problems of being the new kid at a rich, private school through her diary. The author narrates the story through the words and drawing of Nikki. I first grabbed this book because the main character and I share the same name (even the same spelling of it); however, at by the end of the book I realized how much I enjoyed the humor that the author uses to tell Nikki’s story. With that said, I am not sure if the language truly reflects how 14 year-olds talk. While I enjoyed having the story told through the literary talent of a young teenager, I thought the illustrations really made the whole really come together. Though I have not read any of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series yet (it is on my to-read list), this book seems like it would be comparable to that series. I will let you know. In general, I recommend this book; especially if readers enjoy series because this is only book one.
    • 5/5
      I think this is a great book. I think that it's interesting
    • 3/5
      Wow, do I want to bash Nikki's head in. She is extremely self-centered and annoying. Really, REALLY annoying. I don't get how my kids can like this.
    • 5/5
       In this story Nikki has a total Ms.Perfect enemy: Mackenzie. Nikki has a horrible life that gets worse and worse everyday when she is in school or where ever she is! Nikki enters into an art compatition but her painting gets smashed and Nikki thinks Mackenzie will win it so she doesn't go to school. At last her friends take photos of the tattoes that Nikki drew and enter it in the compatition. Guess what? Nikki wins.
    • 3/5
      i thought it was ok
    • 5/5
      This book is great! I found myself laughing out loud at the entries that Nikki puts in her diary. I can remember having those same thoughts as a middle school girl. The content is approachable for kids because it is written in language they they will understand but also introduces new vocabulary. Perfect book for young adolescent girls.
    • 5/5
      Picked it up because the pictures were cute. It reminded me of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. But, I kind of like this more. The story is about a girl in Middle school having to deal with the drama of the cool kids. The story was good. Loved the characters. The pictures reminded me a little of anime, loved that. Overall, it was really enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" has a female counterpart. Nikki Maxwell attends a private middle school, thanks to the bug extermination work her father has done there. Nikki isn't CCP (cute, cool and popular) but she longs to be part of that crowd even though CCP-supreme Mackenzie treats her like dirt. After various failures and humiliations that Nikki hilariously and poignantly documents, she finds her niche with her art and some new friends much more suited to her personality. Young teenage girls will identify with Nikki's chatty, OMG! tone and her typical-teen insecurities.
    • 4/5
      Some interesting stuff re: writing on the body and the protag.'s role as narrator, but otherwise merely an ok novel. I was mostly out off by the artwork, which seemed too perfect, and suggested more that a computer had drawn it than a human hand. Should be included on a syllabus, but make sure other GNs are, too.
    • 3/5
      Really, a 2 1/2. This series is quite popular with the middle grade girls at my school... Diary of a Wimpy Kid gone female. And it has plenty of funny moments, but it just kind of lost credibility for me when I discovered that Nikki is supposed to be 14 years old. I just couldn't buy it... her fixation on the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana would have been believable in an 11- or 12-year-old narrator, maybe, but not 14. The references to trendy pop stars who are trendy no longer have already dated the first title in the series, and Russell just seems to try too hard with WAY too many OMGs and other chatter that is supposed to sound like today's young teen but instead just sounds kind of exhausting. Eh.
    • 3/5
      I thought this would be the girl version of Diary of a Wimpy Kids (which I loved). What I found instead was a snarky and shallow character. I feel this book lacks the substance of Wimpy Kid. The girl seems grumpy, unhappy, and kind of mean all of the time. Contrasted with Greg from Wimpy kid who is balanced with fun and mischief...there's not much to laugh about here. My 11-year-old daughter likes it though.
    • 4/5
      This graphic novel is the first in a series, told from a middle school girl's point of view. I'd recommend it to grades 8 and up, though, as it describes what sounds more like a high school (dissecting frogs in biology, for example). Some of the references are already dated, too (pubbed in 2009, and younger students won't get them all. However, the voice of a preteen/teen was completely realistic. Made me laugh and cry and I think students (in honesty, girls) will totally relate to the main character.
    • 4/5
      I really liked the book there was a great tale and had ups and downs from a teenaged girl at high school. Niki (the main character) calls herself a dork and keeps a diary. With a mean bully life is not great and has to face many different problems. However i sometimes found that Niki goes on a little bit and I would just want to find out what happen. Over all a great book which I would recommend to anyone.
    • 2/5
      Seems like a Wimpy Kid for girls. Nikki is on scholarship to a snooty private day school because her dad has an extermination contract. His truck has a giant roach on the roof. Fairly predictable stuff, her locker is right next to the queen bee's, cute boy takes note of her, she's publicly humiliated. Some funny stuff, will likely be popular with the girls. I'm not a fan of these broadly broadly drawn characters and their often mean spirited behavior.
    • 3/5
      This book is ok and would recomend it to any girl who likes drama.
    • 5/5
      I have heard this book for some many years now and never thought to read it. This book is really funny and their are so many puns in the book that I don't think I even found them all. The hand-drawn pictures in the book make this book that much better because it gives the author more time to develop the story than to describe a setting. I was shocked to find that this book does contain bullying, however, it's not that bad. After reading this book, I am stocked to read the other books in the series.
    • 5/5
      This is a great book to read. Dork Diaries is a book about Nikki's new life in a private school in 8th grade. In the book there is a popular mean girl named Makenzie and her BFF Jessica. In the book she befriends with two girls named Chole and Zoey. She experiences lots of problems being the biggest dork in school. I really enjoy this book. You can always get great books to read in your local bookstore. :)
    • 4/5
      Its tells us about a girls not so fabulous life
    • 5/5
      It was funny cute and dorky
      I love the idea
    • 1/5
      I just hate this app coz i love dork dairies and it is not opening
    • 5/5
      I like this book very much not only this book every dork books from tales from not so bla bla. I don't like the book the best seller
    • 4/5
      This book is really relatable to my best friend and i guess I could relate myself to nikki... Amazing job Rachel
    • 3/5
      3.5 stars
    • 5/5
      it is when she started saying things the way it really was. And I loved it
    • 5/5
      Dork diaries is a great series! I only have three books right now but I really want to get more. But hey! Why don’t you just read on scribed or a different reading app?! I just really like Nikki’s tales from a not so fabulous life!
    • 5/5
      love dorks as I am a biggest dork

      love , love, love, love ,love ,love ,love ,love ,love

    • 5/5
      This is legit awesome! I read the whole thing in 1 day
    • 5/5
      great book.....never heard of this before but when i read it i was amazed.
      all the best nikkiiiiiiiii
    • 4/5
      My rating may be unfair because I'm not the target audience, which, according to the back of the book, is ages 9-13. But the local elementary school librarian said her husband found the book to be laugh-out-loud. The main character starts attending a private school, where she feels like an outsider, but thanks to her artistic talent and genuineness and niceness she succeeds. I wondered what would have happened if she weren't good at drawing temporary tatoos on students and if the ink would make people ill. As I said, I'm not the target audience.

    Book preview

    Dork Diaries - Rachel Renee Russell

    SATURDAY, AUGUST 31

    Sometimes I wonder if my mom is BRAIN DEAD. Then there are days when I know she is.

    Like today.

    The drama started this morning when I casually asked if she would buy me one of those cool new cell phones that do almost everything. I considered it a necessity of life, second only to maybe oxygen.

    What better way to clinch a spot in the CCP (Cute, Cool & Popular) group at my new private school, Westchester Country Day, than by dazzling them with a wicked new cell.

    Last year, it seemed like I was the ONLY student in my ENTIRE middle school who didn’t have one . So I bought an older, used phone SUPERcheap on eBay.

    It was bigger than what I wanted, but I figured I couldn’t go wrong for the clearance price of only $12.99.

    I put my telephone in my locker and spread the word that I had HOT gossip about my NEW phone and that everyone could now call me.

    Then I counted down the minutes before my social life started heating up.

    I got really nervous when two of the CCP girls came walking down the hall in my direction, chatting on their cell phones.…

    They came right over to my locker and started acting SUPERfriendly.

    Then they invited me to sit with them at lunch and I was like, Umm… okay. But deep down inside I was jumping up and down and doing my Snoopy happy dance.…

    Then things got really strange.

    They said they had heard the hot gossip about my brand-new iPhone and that everyone (meaning the rest of the CCP crew) was DYING to see it.

    I was about to explain that I'd said I had HOT gossip about my NEW phone NOT the HOT gossip is about my NEW iPhone, but I never got a chance because, unfortunately, my telephone started ringing.

    Very loudly.

    I was trying my best to ignore it, but both of the CCP girls were staring at me like, Well, aren’t you going to answer it?!…

    Obviously, I didn’t want to answer it because I had a really bad feeling they were going to be a little disappointed when they actually saw my phone.

    So I just stood there praying that it would stop ringing, but it didn’t.

    And pretty soon, everyone in the hallway was staring at me too.

    Finally, I gave in, snatched open my locker, and answered the phone. Mainly to stop that AWFUL ringing.…

    I was like, Umm… sorry. Wrong number.

    And when I turned around, both of the CCP girls were running down the hall screaming, Make it go away! Make it go away! I guessed it probably meant they DIDN’T want me to sit with them at lunch anymore, which was really HUMILIATING!

    The most important lesson I learned last year was that having a CRUDDY phone—or NONE at all—can totally RUIN your social life. While millions of kids regularly FORGET their homework, not a single one would be caught DEAD without their cell phone. Which was why I was nagging my mom about getting ME one.

    I’ve tried saving up my own money to buy it, but that was impossible to do. Mainly because I’m an artist and TOTALLY ADDICTED to drawing! Like, if I don’t do it every day, I’ll go NUTZ!

    I spend ALL of my cash on sketchbooks, pencils, pens, art camp, and other stuff.

    Hey, I’m so BROKE, I have a milk shake on layaway at McDonald’s!

    Anyway, when Mom came home from the mall with a special back-to-school present for me, I was pretty sure I knew what it was.

    She rambled on and on about how my attending a new private school was going to be a stressful time of tremendous personal growth and how my best coping mechanism would be to communicate my thoughts and feelings.

    I was absolutely

    ECSTATIC

    because you can communicate with a

    NEW CELL PHONE!

    Right?!

    I kind of zoned out on most of what my mom was saying because I was DAYDREAMING about all of the cool apps, games, and music I was going to download.

    It was going to be LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!…

    ME AND MY NEW CELL PHONE!!

    But after my mom FINALLY finished her little speech, she smiled really big, hugged me, and handed me a BOOK.…

    I opened it and FRANTICALLY flipped through the pages, figuring that maybe she had hidden my new cell phone inside.

    It made perfect sense at the time because all the advertisements said it was THE thinnest model on the market.

    But slowly it dawned on me that my mom had NOT gotten me a cell phone, and my so-called present was just a stupid little book!

    Talk about major HEARTBREAK!

    Then I noticed that ALL the pages of the book were BLANK.

    I was like, OH. NO. SHE. DIDN’T!

    My mom had given me two things: a DIARY and irrefutable evidence she IS, in fact,

    CLINICALLY BRAIN DEAD!!

    Absolutely no one writes their most intimate feelings and deep, dark secrets in a diary anymore! WHY?!

    Because just one or two people knowing all your BIZ could completely RUIN your reputation.

    You’re supposed to post this kind of juicy stuff online on your BLOG so MILLIONS can read it!!!…

    Only a TOTAL DORK would be caught WRITING in a DIARY!! This is THE worst present I have ever received in my entire life!

    I wanted to yell at the top of my lungs:

    Mom, I don’t need a STUPID book with 336 BLANK pages!!

    What I NEED is to be able to communicate my thoughts and feelings to my friends using my very own cell phone.

    Wait! Silly me. I keep forgetting. I don’t have any friends. YET. But that could change overnight, and I need to be prepared. With a shiny new cell!

    In the meantime, I will NOT write in this diary again.

    NEVER! EVER!!

    MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

    Okay. I know I said I’d never write in this diary again. I meant it at the time.

    I’m definitely not the kind of girl who curls up with a diary and a box of Godiva chocolates to write a bunch of really sappy stuff about

    MY DREAMY BOYFRIEND,

    MY FIRST KISS,

    or my overwhelming ANGST about the HORRIFIC discovery that I’m a

    PRINCESS

    of a small French-speaking principality and now worth

    BILLIONS!!

    THIS IS SO NOT ME!

    MY LIFE TOTALLY SUCKS!! All day I wandered around my new school like a ZOMBIE in lip gloss. Not a single person bothered to say hi.

    THIS IS ME!

    MOST OF THE TIME I FEEL INVISIBLE!

    How am I supposed to fit in at a snobby prep school like Westchester Country Day?! This place has a Starbucks in the cafeteria!

    I wish my dad had NEVER been awarded a bug extermination contract from this school.

    They can take their little pity scholarship and give it to someone who wants and needs it, because I sure DON’T!

    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

    It’s way past midnight, and I’m about to freak out because I still don’t have my homework done.

    I was really surprised to hear a knock on my bedroom door this late at night, and I assumed it was my six-year-old sister, Brianna.

    About a week ago, she lost one of her front teeth and buried it in the backyard to see if it would grow.

    She is FOREVER doing crazy-weird stuff like that.

    My mom says it’s because she’s still a little kid. But I personally think it’s because she has the IQ of a box of crayons.

    As a little joke, I told Brianna the tooth fairy collected teeth from children all over the world and then superglued them together to make dentures for old people.

    I explained that she was in BIG TROUBLE with the tooth fairy, seeing as she had dug a hole and buried her tooth somewhere out in the backyard.

    The funniest part was that Brianna TOTALLY believed me.

    She actually dug up half of Mom’s flower garden trying to find her tooth.

    Since then Brianna has been paranoid that the tooth fairy is going to sneak into her room in the middle of the night and pull out ALL her teeth to make dentures.

    But my prank kind of backfired, because now she absolutely REFUSES to use the bathroom at night unless I first check inside to make sure the tooth fairy is not hiding behind the shower curtain or under the bath towels.

    And if I’m not quick enough, Brianna will have a little accident right on my bedroom carpet.

    MY LITTLE SISTER, BRIANNA

    Unfortunately,

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