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(More customer reviews)Nikki Maxwell needs a cell phone, and she needs it before she starts at her new school, otherwise she can kiss popularity and a social life goodbye.Fortunately for us, Nikki's mom doesn't comply in the way she expected.Instead, she gets a diary, and in the line of Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid.The formats of the two books are pretty much identical: a teenager writing and drawing about their life.The main difference is that Dork Diaries is aimed at girls, while Diary of a Wimpy Kid is targeted at boys.The interesting thing about the two is that Wimpy Kid will appeal to girls also.And I don't mean that boys won't identify with Nikki, it's just that when you put a pink cover on a book you are saying: This book is for girls.There are few boys out there that will willingly pick up a pink book.
The content of the book is Nikki getting adjusted to life at an upper-class school that she is only attending because her dad got the exterminator contract for it.I love when she wants to melt into a puddle when he pulls up in his van; because of course it has a giant roach on the top of it.At one point she pulls out the old `take-a-garbage-bag-and-poke-holes-in-it-so-no-one-sees-me' trick which I absolutely loved because I happen to have had an experience that required a paper bag!(No, I'm not telling, and yes, it was forever ago!)
Nikki goes through the trials and tribulations of a young girl who wants to be friends with the popular girls, realizes the popular girls are really mean, and finds friends who she wouldn't necessarily have chosen, but who turn out to be good for her.All-in-all Nikki is a believable 14-year-old (who sometimes seems a bit younger, but that could have just been me reading her as being whiny) who will have her readers laughing and sighing in agreement all at the same time.
Notes on the Cover:
I love the yellow post-it on the cover with the stick drawing of the gossipy girls in the background with Nikki front and center.I love that she's writing with her favorite pen and trying to ignore the haters behind her.I do like the pink, but my concern is that boys won't pick it up.Of course, they're not the target audience, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't enjoy it!
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