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How To Dork Your Diary
184 pages
A frantic, doodle-filled scramble through middle school drama that doubles as a creative playground for the reader.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like opening a secret, chaotic time capsule of middle school life, complete with all the melodramatic highs and lows. The pace is incredibly brisk, driven by a conversational, breathless narrative that leaps off the page through expressive doodles, ALL CAPS panic, and exclamation-heavy rants. It is a highly interactive experience, blurring the line between reading a story and creating your own, inviting the reader to participate in the messy, joyful act of journaling. The mood is relentlessly playful and energetic, even when dealing with the very real anxieties of crushes, mean girls, and lost secrets. It is an absolute delight for tweens who crave relatable school drama and a safe, creative space to express their own inner dork.
- Mood
- playful
- chaotic
- lighthearted
- energetic
- Tone
- humorous
- melodramatic
- conversational
- upbeat
- earnest
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- creative self-expression · middle school anxiety · friendship dynamics · navigating social hierarchies
- The writing
- Exuberant and highly conversational, relying heavily on ALL CAPS, exclamation points, and expressive doodles to convey tween angst.
- The arc
- A frantic, highly dramatic panic over a lost secret that resolves into a joyful celebration of creativity and friendship.
- Who it's for
- Middle-grade readers who love interactive formats, relatable school drama, and expressing themselves through art and journaling.
Content notes
- mild bullying
- middle school social anxiety
About the book
Nikki Maxwell has been writing in a diary since the start of the school year, and she usually takes it everywhere she goes - so she can't believe it when one morning she can't find her diary! The hunt is on, and while she looks, pursuing various theories about where it could be, Nikki can't help putting together a list of important diary-keeping lessons to remember in case of missing diary emergencies like this one. How to Dork Your Diary is chock full of tips from Nikki on fun things to write about in your diary, with lots of space for readers to write and draw their own entries. Meanwhile Nikki's friends Chloe and Zoey, her little sister Brianna, her crush Brandon, and mean girl Mackenzie are all a part of the story as Nikki searches everywhere for that diary, with plenty of adventures along the way!
Description from Open Library.
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