I understand I can change my preference through my account settings or unsubscribe directly from any marketing communications at any time. Book 2 Dork Diaries: Party Time has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for 42 weeks [11] and the USA Today Best Sellers list for 12 weeks. Book 1 Dork Diaries has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for 42 weeks [7] and the USA Today Best Sellers list for 7 weeks. I loved the development of the lead's confidence over time, I like that she's gotten a lot more comfortable standing up for herself but this one defeats her back to where she was at book one. Brandon is a photographer for Westchester Middle School's newspaper, and in Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Talented Pop Star, it is revealed Brandon plays the drums and joins Nikki's band, "Actually, I'm Not Really Sure Yet".

Rachel is also the author of a second New York Timesbestselling series, The Misadventures of Max Crumbly, which received a Kids’ Book Choice Award. It was too cheesy and predictable and I hate how every little thing that goes wrong means Nikki's life is a "giant bucket of puke". My recommendation - books 1-7 are great and perfect for both middle graders and adults looking for middle grade antics but 7 is the best conclusion to the series, and anyone wanting to end on a high note should stop there.She has two best friends, Chloe Garcia and Zoeysha "Zoey" Franklin, and shows interest in Brandon Roberts, a fellow student who loves animals and photography. Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the tour. Unfortunately it’s not the series I initially loved, and hasn’t been for a few books now, so it’s time for Nikki and I to part ways. Sure, she was meant to represent the typical mean girl, but in the past few books it seems more like her only purpose is to show readers how horrible it is to pretty and like makeup and be popular.

Marcy is Mackenzie's assistant fashion director for the newspaper, but is bullied by Mackenzie, and is deemed to be unfashionable by the latter. Marcy sends an anonymous letter to Miss Know-It-All, saying that she's new, being bullied by some other girls, and can't find friends. WHAT ABOUT THE TWO GUYS THAT PLAY GUITAR AND BASE THAT I DONT EVEN REMEMBER THE NAMES OF BECAUSE YOU COMPLETELY NEGLECTED THEM EXCEPT TO FILL UP SPACE IN THE ILLUSTRATIONS? Tales From a Not-So-Best-Friend Forever is the latest installment and will have those that love the series swooning and squeeee-ing with delight. I wondered if it was simply because I had grown up and moved on to books more appropriate for my age range, but I still adore the middle grade Warriors and Survivors series from my childhood.Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! I simply don't think our lead is that stupid to let a mean girl blackmail her for something that is 10 times more of a threat the the blackmailer.

The eighth book, Tales of a Not-So-Happily Ever After, won the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children award. Without these cookies, we won't know if you have any performance-related issues that we may be able to address. TheDork Diariesseries has beentranslated into forty-two languages worldwide and its characters are as diverse as the millions of tweens who read the books. It was later confirmed to be released on the 26th of September 2023 on the Dork Diaries official page. It was obvious that the focus of the book would be on the Bad Boyz tour, so I was confused as to why there were nearly eighty pages of what seemed like filler before Nikki’s band even began to practice for the tour.With more than fifty-five million books in print, the series has garneredsuch honors as twoKids’ Book Choice Awards, an NAACP Image Awardfor Outstanding Literary Work for Children,the Milner Award for Children’s Literature,and a Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Book of the Year nomination. The book “Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend'' by Rachel Renée Russell was an excellent book about a girl named Nikki going on tour with a famous boy band. Nikki first believes that he is a girl named Andrea and accidentally reveals some embarrassing information to him as a result, but they both become friends.