Recipe for disaster:
4 parties.
Add 2 friends and 1 crush.
Divide by 1 mean girl out to RUIN Nikki.
Mix well, put fingers over eyes, and cringe! (publisher’s summary)
Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl by Rachel Renée Russell
Reviewed by The Girl (age 11)
Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl (book 2 in the Dork Diaries series) is about a girl named Nikki, who is facing middle school and has to deal with a mean girl, MacKenzie. The book is Nikki’s diary for the month of October, with lined pages that look like real handwriting and drawings. Nikki really, really wants Brandon (her crush) to ask her out to the Halloween dance. But then she hears that Brandon is going to ask MacKenzie to the dance. Things get out of control when Nikki has to deal with two events and planning the big dance. Will Brandon go with MacKenzie? Will the dance be a success?
This was an AWESOME book. It starts off amazing, and it didn’t end like I expected it to. It ends with excitement. I think Nikki is a great character. She’s funny, especially when she says things about MacKenzie in her head. I know what it’s like to have a mean girl in my class, and I like to write in a journal, too. I really like this series, though Diary of a Wimpy Kid is still my favorite of the diary books. I think you all should read this book!
Disclosure: My mom won Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl in a blog contest. She is an IndieBound affiliate and an Amazon associate.
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I love when she tells everyone to read the book. I wonder if she misses auntie’s valley girl voice for these books
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She says it was hilarious when you did that!
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I am pretty sure I would have like this one when I was younger 😀 Sounds like just the thing for me then
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I think I would have loved it, too.
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I’ve read one of the Dork Diary books and loved it too! It’s too bad that most people know what it’s like to have a mean girl in their class.
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There were some mean ones in my day, too. Some things will never change.
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My 11 year old stepdaughter loves this series. It is very difficult to find something she will read, so anytime I find a book or series she enjoys I am over the moon.
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That’s great! The Girl can’t wait for me to get her book 3 now.
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Wonderful review! Even though I am much older than The Girl, I’d like to read this–it sounds funny, and I might even learn a thing or two about dealing with meanies. 🙂
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The Girl says you should read it because she thinks you’d enjoy it! 😉
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Thank you The Girl for this wonderful review. I am going to buy this one for one of my nieces 🙂
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We hope she loves it, too!
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Kudos to The Girl for an enthuastic review!
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Thanks, Kim!
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Interesting review. Sounds interesting, I think.
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Thanks, Geosi!
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Excellent review and you know something??? All the girls love this book at my middle school. It’s always checked out! 😀
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I’m not surprised to hear that! We bought The Girl book 3 over the weekend and she’s already gobbling it up!
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It is my impression that this is kind of the female version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid … and I don’t think that is far off.
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You’re exactly right about that! My daughter loves the Wimpy Kid books more, though. I think she relates more to Greg than to Nikki at this point, but I suspect that is going to change sooner than I’d like!
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Great review by The Girl 🙂 This one does sound like a fun book. I think almost everyone knows what its like having a mean girl in class.
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Thanks, Naida! I remember those days, too.
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What a fantastic review! Nikki sounds like a great, funny character which I always like. And it’s wonderful that this is part of a series.
I would have liked this series a lot when I was younger especially with a mean girl as one of the characters, the behavior of someone like her most of us can identify with, ugh!
Thank you to The Girl for sharing her thoughts and recommending this book!
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Thanks, Amy! I would have loved these books when I was younger, too.
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[…] is a pretty good book. I still like Diary of a Wimpy Kid the most, but it ties with Big Nate, Dork Diaries, and Notes From a Totally Lame Vampire because those I just can’t […]
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