![]() ![]() And, yes, Rachel considers herself a total Dork. Rachel lives in northern Virginia with a spoiled pet Yorkie who terrorises her daily by climbing on top of her computer and pelting her with stuffed animals while she writes. She has raised two daughters and lived to tell about it. Rachel Renee Russell is a lawyer who prefers writing children’s books to legal briefs (mainly because books are a lot more fun and pyjamas and bunny slippers aren’t allowed in court). Purchase a copy of Dork Diaries: Birthday Drama | Read an extract If your little reader has enjoyed Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Timmy Failure they will love Dork Diaries especially as the story is told by a girl rather than boy. Narrate your very own Dork Diary with this write-in journal, filled with questions for every day and complete with art and quotes from Nikki Maxwell herselfAs Nikki Maxwell knows, keeping a journal is a great way to get to know the most important person in your life: YOU This special Dork Diaries guided journal features questions for every day of the year. Lots of resources are available to use with these books and if you go to the Dork Diaries website you’ll find competitions, a look at fan art, writing tips and activities. Tween readers will enjoy going along for the ride with Nikki and if this is their first taste of the series, then you know that 12 other great books await them. Complications abound when she also has to decide to stay with her friends and Brandon over the summer or go on a trip to Paris. Now Nikki must either cancel the party or find a way to pay for it. Mum has a few ideas on how to keep the budget down like having the celebration in the back yard complete with live accordion music from neighbour Mrs Wallabanger and belly dancing senior citizens – add to that a birthday cake made by her little sister and you have a disaster on your hands.Īfter deciding the party going ahead in its current form would be the social kiss of death, Nikki decides to cancel but it appears the invites have already gone out! However, there is one slight problem: Nikki has $8.73 in her piggy bank and while party planner extraordinaire Chloe has trimmed the party budget, they are drastically short of the $500 needed. Nikki is also hoping to impress Brandon, her good friend who could be something more, she has decided. So, the new Dork Diaries Book 15 cover design isCHIC CHECKS Thank you SO much for voting I really appreciated your help. After much discussion they settle on an island luau party at the new local pool with a DJ, lots of great snacks, tropical decorations and costumes for the 100 guests they plan on inviting. In Dork Diaries: Birthday Drama, Nikki and her two BFFs Chloe and Zoey are planning the ultimate teen birthday party that will set them all up socially for the year to come. Written in a diary format with illustrations throughout, these books are filled with high drama and take a humorous look at the complexities of teen life. So I would say definitely Dork Diaries was a wonderful distraction and a whole new life and a new career for me.Some incredibly exciting news for 10+ readers: the thirteenth and latest book in the wildly popular Dork Diaries series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Renee Russell, is here! The premise of these books may seem simple – a teen girl dealing with friendships, frenemies, parents, some bullying and the odd crush – however with 37 million copies sold worldwide, Dork Diaries is obviously a winning formula. So yes, I think my divorce was finalized in April and Dork Diaries was released like six weeks later, and it hit The New York Times best-sellers list. ![]() And I look at Nikki Maxwell kind of as something that kept me going and a friend that, you know, I would talk to and write about and kept me from like having a nervous breakdown or whatever. My kids were grown up and in college and the bottom had basically fallen out of my life. "I was going through a divorce, I had been married 25 years and my life was unraveling. On how the Dork Diaries gave her a new life You can also tweet your questions to a black woman, do I want to kind of reach outside of my comfort zone and write a character of a different race and a different age? And she made the decision to do that with both of her television shows, which are wildly successful, and I thought, 'Well, if Shonda can do it, then I'm going to try to do this, too.' " Please send us your questions for the author. Born with a facial deformity that initially prevented his attendance at public school, August "Auggie" Pullman enters the fifth grade at Beecher Prep and struggles with the dynamics of being both new and different. Next month we'll be reading Wonder by R.J. ![]()
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