Part of Dork Diaries, book 2
First published 2010
Nikki Maxwell thinks her life is finally improving at her new school. She has best friends Chloe and Zoey by her side, and Brandon, the boy she likes, just asked her to be his lab partner. Everything seems perfect until Nikki overhears MacKenzie, the school's resident mean girl, bragging that Brandon will take her to the Halloween dance. Crushed and convinced she's lost her chance, Nikki commits to spending Halloween at a children's party with her annoying little sister Brianna instead. But when Nikki discovers MacKenzie was lying, she realizes she might still have a shot at the dance with Brandon. Now she faces an impossible challenge: attending both the kids' party and the school dance on the same night. Can Nikki pull off this double duty without everything falling apart? Between costume changes, party disasters, and MacKenzie's schemes, Nikki must navigate the chaos while trying to win over her crush and survive middle school social warfare.
Genres: fiction, family-life, school-stories, contemporary, adolescence, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, high-school
288 pages · Kindle Edition · Aladdin