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picked up the first book in this series two weeks ago, She devoured it, and just finished the second book last night, I came here to look at some of the reviews, and I get the sense that they are not tween kids reading/writing them, While I think reviews from parents and avid YA book readers in general are a good thing, for something like this I have to go to the source: my kid.


Let me first say that M really didn't like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, She read the first one, liked it well enough, but never finish book two and that was that, Obviously for her, Dork Diaries are different, if for no other reason that the main character is a girl, and maybe that's enough, The drama, the school intrigue, as much as I might dis it from myyear old dad perspective, it keeps her reading and entertained, Not only that, but I have to give her credit, she understands the drama, understands the lessons, understands the consequences of the characters' actions, and while it might be over the top, I think it's all part of story telling for this age.


While there is merit in screening what your kids read, making sure it's appropriate, I think parents can go overboard on protecting their kids from books.
M doesn't find this as a reading lesson in how to be whinny, or obnoxious, or mean, Rather, she sees it as a reflection of her life at school, where she has to deal with kids who are whinny, obnoxious, and mean, and hopefully does so in a positive way or maybe her friends have to deal with her grin.
Whether the main character in Dork Diaries does so on a regular basis or not, M is able to see it play out in the book and discern for herself what's right and wrong.
So far, all I know is she's devouring the books and talking to my wife and I about them, and that's a good thing, This is obviously a quick cashin on the Wimpy Kid craze, and it shows, Oh, it SHOWS. Though derivative, I honestly wouldn't have minded a Wimpy Kid from the female perspective, but then I remembered we already have that in the Amelia series by Marissa Moss, which is much better written and illustrated, and not to mention heartfelt.


The Dork Diaries is painfully vapid and shallow, and our protagonist Nikki is not particularly likable, I'm really not a fan of how she blames popular Mean Girl MacKenzie for a lot of her problems especially her fear to register for avantgarde art contest and I'm just tired of the Mean Girl trope anyway.
Nikki's new friends Chloe and Zoey seem more interesting to me, but Nikki is oddly dismissive of some of their interests and is a worse friend to them than they are to her.
Nikki's sister Brianna has a lot of personality, too it's really Nikki herself that seems to fall the flattest, and my guess is that she's probably an empty shell mostly to appeal to the largest swath of the tween population as possible.


They're no doubt popular, and Nikki and her friends have streaks of creativity, but it's still junk literature, The only positive thing I can say is that Nikki recognizes she doesn't really want to be part of the CCP cool, cute, amp popular clique after all, so at least MOST of the messages being sent to readers are positive.
There's an awful lot of materialism to contend with, though, and a colleague's description of these books as whining about "First World Problems" was spoton, Dork Diaries is a great book, I recommend it to all girls who like excitement and longer books, Once you have read the first book you will want to read all the others A, W. E. S. O. M. E. Wow. LOVED. IT.

Well, to start off, it's about a dorky teen in eighth grade named Nikki Maxwell, She has two friends named Chloe and Zoey, whom she both met while on the job as a library shelf assistant putting books back into their proper places on the shelves.
She has a crush on the school reporter, Brandon Roberts, but feels like she's too lame for him to like her, There's a mean girl at her school, apparently the most popular, named MacKenzie Hollister, and the two are, pretty much, archenemies,

Throughout the book, Nikki talks the reader through what happened in school that day, and all the drama caused at whoops, forgot to introduce the school's name! the prep school, Westchester Country Days.
She talks about the person she is and the person she wants to be, how embarrassing her parents are, how unfair life is, etc, She dabs in some text lingo that I suspiciously think she thought of herself, The story mostly wraps around an art competition called AvantGarde Art,

MacKenzie and Nikki both apply for the competition, and pretty much the whole school believes Kenzie will win, She believes that herself, too, and continuously discourages Nikki and humiliates her, One day, to suck up to the librarian insert name here in order to be able to go to New York and get famous authors' autographs, Nikki give Chloe and Zoey cool tattoos she draws on herself using a pen.
The school then becomes interested in them, and other students apply to get them themselves, Donate books for a tattoo,

When the day of the art submission comes, Nikki rides to school in her dad's roachcar Maxwell's extermination business thingy, yes the dreaded car she absolutely didn't want to be caught in, with her rad watercolor painting.
MacKenzie comes out with paintings of mannequins in her dream fashion line, FabEver, and snickers and sneers at Nikki when the watercolor painting is crushed under a tire of the roachcar.
Kenzie proceeds to submit her art, while Nikki sits, devastated, out on the sidewalk, in the rain, She finally enters the school with Brandon, who miraculously finds her sitting outside, but when she finds graffiti saying "bug girl" on her locker, she decides it is the last straw, and plans to transfer.
Just when her parents are finishing the transfer sheet, Nikki spots an entry,

The entry is titled "Student Body, " By Nikki Maxwell. It consists entirely of the tattoos Nikki drew onto the students before, and it is ranked NUMBER, NUMERO UNO. Later, in the janitor's closet Chloe and Zoey explained that they decided on the project, and entered it for Nikki, because the original painting was lost, The duo had worked on it for hours with Brandon, Nikki jokes about how she didn't get to see Kenzie's face, yadda yadda, Happy ending! Yay! But, yes, it does leave the reader with a mostlysatisfied, happy feeling, after reading the last page, where Brandon asks Nikki to work on a science lab with him and she answers.
Tales from a Not So Fabulous Life is the first book in the Dork Diaries series by Rachel Renée Russell,

Nikki J. Maxwell is an eighth grader that recently changed schools and is now going Westchester Country Day, a private school, because her dad has an extermination contract with the school.
She wants to become a part of the CCP girls, Cute, Cool and Popular girls, and she believes a new cell phone will help her do just that.
She thought that her mom got her one but realizes is just a diary,

Its not going to well at her school, She doesnt have any friends, and her locker is next to Mackenzie, the most popular girl at school and a CCP girl, Nikki loves to draw and is going to sign up for the art competition, Just as she is getting ready to get a form, she sees Mackenzie getting one, Being intimidated by her, Nikki just ends up getting a form to be a library shelving assistant, Even though she wanted to do the art competition, she ends up making friends with two of the other library shelving assistants, Chloe and Zoey, Will Nikki ever be one of the CCP girls Will Nikki get the courage to enter the art competition Can she ever stop being shy around Brandon Roberts, her crush

I really liked this book.
I wish it had more of Nikkis sister Brianna in it, I really thought it was funny when it talked about Brianna and the tooth fairy, I thought all the drawings were cute and wished there were more of them, I loved how Nikki interacted with Brandon and how she coped with going to a new school,
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Nikki Maxwell is going to a new private school, She wants to be accepted into the popular group but she believes that in order to do that she needs an expensive cell phone, a new wardrobe, and a new family.


She finds out the hard way who her real friends are and how her mad skillz in art can help her be accepted,

My fifth grade boys love DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, and this is a series I can introduce to my girls, which is written in the same style.
Nikki is likable but can be annoying at times, which makes me like her even more, She isn't perfect but yet gets what is important in life,

She has two great friends, who again aren't perfect, but are very realistic, Between her and her two friends they get themselves into a lot of humorous situations that many middle schoolers can identify with,

I enjoyed this book a lot and hope to have many copies next year to share with my class, I can't lie, it was trash, But I can't give this two, I would never betrayyearold me like that, The book i am reading is called Dork Diaries well this book is about a girl who wishes to have things but can not have them and it is also about a girl who always is mean to Nikki and that girl is the most popular girl at school and everybody is under her hands because she is the queen of the school and that is why everbody in the school is scared of her.

In Dork Diaries there are a lot of events for example there are a lot of sad events that maybe will make you get tears from your eyes when you read it.
The first example is that when Nikki was going to go to her class to return her project she was too late and the dad also was late to take her than when they got there the school was closed because it was too late and she was in the rain with

her project and she was getting all wet from the rain and she was so sad and she was also crying then a boy came next to her and cheered her up so she could stop crying and getting upset for not making it on time to her class and also to take her project that she really needed to take to the teachers who asked for the project.
I visualized that when she was crying in the rain her eyes looked droopey and her whole body was freezing like a ice cube and i saw that Nikki was so tired of the rain and she really needed a hug because she was out in the rain really cold and she wanted a hug from the boy that was standing right next to her.
This helps me understand that Nikki is really sad and she is also so mad at her dad for bringing her late to her school and just leaving her there.

In the Dork Diaries there are a lot of fun events that i really enjoyed reading about in the book, The first example is that Nikki and her friends were planning to do a plan so they thought about it and finally they decided that they were gonna pay people so they could put tattoos on and they made a lot of money they were so happy because they were making so much money just in one day so they kept on doing the bussiness and they were getting kind of popular and that is the other reason why they were so happy but for a while they had to stop doing that for some reason that a kid had towards it and also part of it was because of the principal so that are the reasons that they had stopped being popular and also getting money.
I visualized that when they were doing the tattoos there was a big smile on their faces but they were still all very focused with their work because they did not want to lose customers and their job was really going well and they could not stop until too bad they had to close it because of the mean principal.
This helps me understand that their job is really important for them because it was really fun to do and they got payed really well that is why they did not want to lose it so until that day came they were so sad but they had to deal with it because they could not fight with the principal.

There are also a lot of events that freak you out that you already want to know what is going to happen next, The first example is that when Nikki and her sister sneaked in Magazine's house and the worst part was that she got home they were totally freaked out but they stayed real quiet so Magazine could not see them or hear them also so then Nikki and her sister sneaked out very quietly because if they made noise then Magazine would find them and she would get so mad because they sneaked in her house with no permission but the good thing is that they got out of the house and they waited for their dad to pick them up.
I visualized that Nikki and her sister were really worried and freaked out i imagined that they had a horror face and they were being as quiet as a mouse because they did not want Magazine to catch them because if she did she would get so angry and also she would make a big drama just for a little thing.
This helps me understand that sneaking into a house that is not yours is bad more bad if you do not have permission so that is why Nikki should never sneak into a house no matter how she hates that person that lives in the house she sneaked in.

In Conclusion,today i learned a lot of things from what i wrote but what i want to write about is that it is not good to sneak to a house with no permission because you could get into a lot of trouble for sneaking to a house so what Nikki did was wrong the good thing is that they did not catch her being in the house or getting out of the house or getting in the house.

PROJECT

Mr, Mateos this is my project
Hope you liked it
Sincerely,
Leslie M,



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