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

**Author:** Rachel Renée Russell
**Lexile:** 890L
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 2009
**Page count:** 282
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781416980063`
**ISBN-10:** `1416980067`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/dork-diaries-tales-from-a-not-so-fabulous-life
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Nikki Maxwell starts at a snooty new private school and confesses all in her very first diary — the battle for a phone, new BFFs Chloe and Zoey, a crush on Brandon, and a running feud with mean-girl MacKenzie over the school art show. The illustrated, comic-laced opener of the bestselling Dork Diaries series is a grades 4-7 staple.

## Themes

- friendship
- school
- identity
- humor

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