Part of Dork Diaries, book 13
First published 2018
Nikki Maxwell stares at her birthday party plans and feels her excitement crumble. She and her best friends Chloe and Zoey have designed the perfect celebration, but her mother has delivered crushing news: the budget is absolutely not happening. Nikki considers canceling everything rather than settling for something ordinary. She wants this thirteenth birthday to matter, especially with all the drama that follows her around at school. But unexpected events begin shifting her carefully laid plans in directions she never saw coming. Help arrives from someone Nikki never imagined would care about her happiness. As her birthday approaches, Nikki discovers that the day might become unforgettable for reasons completely different from what she originally envisioned. The thirteenth book in the Dork Diaries series finds Nikki learning that sometimes the best celebrations come from the most surprising places.
Genres: fiction, family-life, humor, contemporary, young-adult
Vibes: emotional, intimate, whimsical
Tropes: found-family, unexpected-events
304 pages · Hardcover · Aladdin