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

Rachel Renée Russell

Jun 2009 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Nikki Maxwell is starting eighth grade at a new school—and her very first diary is packed with hilarious stories and art in this SUPER SQUEE updated edition of the first book in 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 school-wide art competition.

Nearly 30 million books in print worldwide!

Ratings and reviews

If there's a solution to taking all the cliche from The Clique and Gossip Girl, rolling it into one, and publishing it, this is what happened. This...this FAILURE of a book, this DISAPPOINTMENT, was drowned in a sea of cliche, washed up on an island of abomination, and rescued by a ship of cheesiness. I'm not even trying to joke; when I'm mad, it's not my habit to make jokes. There was product-placement on every page: iPhone, Rachael Ray, the Tyra Banks Show, THE LIST JUST DOESN'T END! And neither will your seething anger and disappointment when you read this EXCUSE of work.

The most horrible piece of "literature" I've ever scorched my eyes with. An obvious rip off of Diary of a Wimpy Kid that lacks imagination and creativity of any sort. While Diary of a Wimpy Kid is funny because it is realistic (even though it's portrayed with stick figures), the author of Dork Diaries misses the whole point and succeeds in creating a disgusting pile of absolute crap. If you are looking for something interesting, amusing, or even educational you're far better off watching a good episode of Spongebob Squarepants. If you look at the five star reviews you can see they're all by complete morons who know nothing about literature and would probably die if they had to read a box car children book. Dork Diaries is an insult to girls, pretending it's the "girl version" of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, while it's literally not worth one twelfth of them. The girl who went to a new school, met the popular girl, likes a boy ,blah, blah, blah, crap. Can anyone say, I've heard this story nine hundred times already? Because I certainly have. I can name 10 stories off the bat and this one offers nothing special IN THE SLIGHTEST. This book was obviously only made so the author could get a few bucks while DoWK was popular and idiotic suckers would buy it. I can only see MAYBE reading it if you're really bad at reading and want to improve, but if that's the case I strongly recommend something more worth your time. The only people who would like it would like it for the theme (Nikki is supposedly random and hyper just like everyyyy stupid middleschooler girl thinks they are and they trick themselves into thinking Nikki is like them).

I dont think this book is very good! Nikki is a fourteen year old girl who has just moved schools her locker is next to the most popular girl in the school. I think it would make some people feel un-popular, it is written for young children but I reccomend its innapropriate and is best for tweens and teens!

About the author

Rachel Renée Russell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dork Diaries, an international blockbuster series chronicling the life and misadventures of middle school students, Nikki Maxwell and her best friends Chloe and Zoey. With humor and wit, Rachel’s books encourage tweens to embrace their individuality and always let their inner dork shine through. The Dork Diaries series has been translated into forty-two languages worldwide and its characters are as diverse as the millions of tweens who read the books. With more than fifty-five million books in print, the series has garnered such honors as two Kids’ Book Choice Awards, an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, the Milner Award for Children’s Literature, and a Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Book of the Year nomination. Rachel is also the author of a second New York Times bestselling series, The Misadventures of Max Crumbly, which received a Kids’ Book Choice Award. Her daughter, Nikki Russell, is the illustrator for both book series. The mother-daughter team has released nineteen consecutive New York Times bestsellers.