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

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

By Rachel Renée Russell

876 ratings 1378 reviews 1475 followers
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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Nikki Maxwell is to a new school and so far it's been really hard with dealing with her worst enemy Makenzie which is way harder than it seems and trying to hide one of the most embarrassing thing in her life that she go to the school on a bug scholarship that a job has at her new school but her dads work can is the worst of it it has a huge roach on top and she tries to keep it a secret from people at school and dealing with trying to get some friends and her little sister Brianna who is so annoying and that she has a secret crush on the same boy as her enemy Makenzie do you want to know what happens than you will have to find out. It's a very good book

This book awesome

I totally agree. I have read the entire series twice.

Love the series I'm a total dork diaries fan

Dork Dork

My friend gave me the book and I love it. 😁

I love it

Kate Kate

This is book is funny and for kids 5 and up. Nikki wants to win an art competition, but her painting gets crushed, will she win, read it to figure out

I love this book, dork diaries are the best.

Wanted to find a book series about girls, not mean girls! Being bullied last year, this book really disappointed me. I have all the first 4 books in the series and plan to read them all. I am glad that I don't have friends like this or that I am like this. This may be real for Nikki and the other girls written in the book, and maybe even some of the other girls reading it. But when you live it, you don't want to read about it, too!

Dork Diares is a really good series about a girl named Nikki Maxwell, who is starting a new private school. All she wants to do is fit in with the CCP’s (the cute, cool, and popular girls), but it doesn’t work out. The CCP’s leader, Mackenzie Hollister, hates Nikki, and when you add in boy drama, friend feuds, and her weird family to the mix, Nikki has to deal with everything to try and make it through the year. I would recommend this book to kids of any age, because it is different and fun to read a whole story through a diary! :)

I agree. You described the series PERFECTLY!!!

Jaleena Jaleena

it was cool and good

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