How would you feel if your friends wouldn’t let you join
their club? Niki is a teenager and is nervous when she first starts going to
her new school in the realistic fiction book Dork Diaries by Rachael
Renee Russell. She doesn’t fit in with the other people yet because she doesn’t
know anybody that goes there. Then, she becomes friends with Chloe and Zoey.
Later on, she enters the school art show and she finds out that Mackenzie
joined it, too. Mackenzie is a popular girl that teases Niki. Niki feels
uncomfortable about the art show, because she thinks that Mackenzie is going to
win.
My reaction to this book was mainly boredom.
I liked it because I understood what was going on. Some parts were repetitive like
when she kept talking about the boy she likes. Some parts were funny like when
Nikki blew up her science project because she put the wrong chemical in. I think this book is good for a middle school girl
because it has a lot of gossip.