Table Of ContentALSO BY
Rachel Renée Russell
Dork Diaries:
Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
Rachel Renée Russell
DORK
diaries
Tales from a NOT-SO-Popular Party Girl
Aladdin
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used
fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination,
and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data * Russell, Rachel Renée. * Tales from a not-so-
popular party girl / by Rachel Renée Russell. — 1st Aladdin hardcover ed. * p. cm. — (Dork diaries) *
Summary: Nikki’s diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister’s ballet class
party at the same time she is Brandon’s date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has
promised to spend the evening with her two best friends. * ISBN 978-1-4169-8008-7 (hardcover :
alk. paper) * [1. Parties—Fiction. 2. Halloween—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Popularity—Fiction.
5. Middle schools—Fiction. 6. Schools—Fiction. 7. Diaries—Fiction.] I. Title. * PZ7.R915935Tal 2010
* [Fic]—dc22 * 2009039508 * ISBN 978-1-4169-8656-0 (eBook)
To my mom, Doris,
for ALWAYS being there for me
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To all my wonderful Dork Diaries fans—a special thank-you for embracing this series so warmly and
widely. Always remember to let your inner Dork shine through
Liesa Abrams, my awesome editor, thank you for the endless amounts of enthusiasm and energy you’ve
brought to the Dork Diaries books. I am SO happy to be on this fabulous journey with you and your
inner thirteen-year-old!
Lisa Vega, my superdedicated art director, thank you for your hard work and creative expertise.
Especially on those long, late nights when the janitor had turned off all the lights.
Mara Anastas, Bethany Buck, Bess Braswell, Paul Crichton, and the rest of my fantastic team at
Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, thank you for believing in Dork Diaries.
Daniel Lazar, my incredible agent at Writers House, thank you for being all that you are: agent, friend,
adviser, coach, cheerleader, and even therapist. You’ve helped make my wildest dreams come true. Also, a
special thanks to Stephen Barr for sending me those crazy e-mails that made me laugh so hard I cried.
Maja Nikolic, Cecilia de la Campa, and Angharad Kowal, my foreign rights agents at Writers House,
thank you for helping Dork Diaries be read internationally.
Nikki Russell, my daughter and supertalented assistant artist, thank you for all your hard work on this
project. I could not have done any of this without you and cannot begin to express my gratitude. I am
SO lucky to be your mom!
Sydney James, Cori James, Ariana Robinson, and Mikayla Robinson, my tweenage nieces, thank you for
being my brutally honest critique partners who somehow know what’s supercool before it actually is.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
I can’t believe this is happening to me!
I’m in the girls’ bathroom FREAKING OUT!!
There’s NO WAY I’m going to survive middle school.
I’ve just made a complete FOOL of myself in front of my secret crush. AGAIN !!
And if that wasn’t bad enough, I’m still stuck with a locker right next to MacKenzie Hollister’s !
Who, BTW, is the most popular girl at Westchester Country Day Middle School and a total SNOB.
Calling her a “mean girl” is an understatement.
She’s a KILLER SHARK in sparkly nail polish, designer jeans, and platform Skechers.
But for some reason, everyone ADORES her.
MacKenzie and I do NOT get along. I’m guessing it’s probably due to the fact that she
HATES MY GUTS !!
She is forever gossiping behind my back and saying supermean stuff like that I have no fashion sense
whatsoever and that our school mascot, Larry the Lizard, wears cuter clothes than I do.
Which might actually be true. But STILL!
I do NOT appreciate that girl BLABBING about my personal business.
This morning she was even more vicious than usual.
I could NOT believe she actually said that to me!
I mean, how can a COLOR clash with a FLAVOR?! DUH!! They’re like two TOTALLY different, um .
. . THINGS!
That’s when I lost it and yelled, “Sorry, MacKenzie! But I’m REALLY busy right now. Can I IGNORE
you some other time?!”
But I just said it inside my head, so no one else heard it but me.
And if all of that isn’t enough TORTURE, the annual WCD Halloween dance is in three weeks!
It’s the biggest event of the fall, and everyone is already gossiping about who’s going with who.
I’d just totally DIE if my secret crush,
BRANDON
asked me to go!
Yesterday he actually asked ME to be his lab partner for biology class!
