With brand-new, full-color illustrations, the book that started the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series comes alive in full bloom and geared for a new modern middle grade audience.

New school. New life. New drama.
New edition in AMAZING FULL COLOR!

THINK GUMBALLS, RAINBOWS, AND CANDY! Nikki Maxwell’s very first diary, filled with drama, tears, and lots of laughs (sometimes snotty ones!) is now filled with SQUEE-worthy new bright, vibrant, candy-colored art! OMG!

Excerpt

1. Saturday, August 31 SATURDAY, AUGUST 31
Sometimes I wonder if my mom is BRAIN DEAD. Then there are days when I KNOW she is.

Like today!

The drama started this morning when I casually asked my mom if she would buy me one of those cool new cell phones that do almost everything. I considered it a necessity of life, second only to maybe oxygen.

What better way to land a spot in the CCP (Cute, Cool & Popular) group at my new private school, Westchester Country Day, than by dazzling them with a wicked new cell phone.

It seemed like I was the ONLY student in my ENTIRE middle school who didn’t have one. So I bought an older, used phone SUPER CHEAP online.

It was A LOT bigger than what I wanted, but I figured I couldn’t go wrong for the clearance price of only $12.99.

I put it inside my locker and spread the

that I FINALLY had a PHONE and that EVERYONE could now CALL ME!

Then I counted down the minutes, hoping my social life would finally heat up .

I got really NERVOUS when two of the CCP girls came walking down the hall in my direction, chatting on their cell phones.…

About The Author

Rachel Renée Russell

Rachel Renée Russell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dork Diaries, an international blockbuster series chronicling the life and misadventures of middle school students, Nikki Maxwell and her best friends Chloe and Zoey. With humor and wit, Rachel’s books encourage tweens to embrace their individuality and always let their inner dork shine through. The Dork Diaries series has been translated into fifty-two languages worldwide and its characters are as diverse as the millions of tweens who read the books. With more than fifty-five million books in print, the series has garnered such honors as two Kids’ Book Choice Awards, an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, the Milner Award for Children’s Literature, and a Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Book of the Year nomination. Rachel is also the author of a second New York Times bestselling series, The Misadventures of Max Crumbly, which received a Kids’ Book Choice Award. Her daughter, Nikki Russell, is the illustrator for both book series. The mother-daughter team has released twenty-one consecutive New York Times bestsellers.