Part of Dork Diaries, book 5
First published 2012
Nikki Maxwell watches MacKenzie launch a gossip column for the school newspaper and decides she needs to get involved in student journalism herself. She joins the newspaper staff and lands the role of advice columnist, writing as Miss Know-It-All. At first, Nikki enjoys responding to letters from fellow students seeking guidance on their problems. The work feels manageable and even entertaining. But her inbox soon fills with desperate pleas for help from kids facing all sorts of dilemmas. The volume of requests overwhelms Nikki, and she realizes that dispensing wisdom to others is much harder than she expected. As Miss Know-It-All, she's supposed to have answers, but Nikki finds herself needing advice more than anyone. The pressure of helping so many classmates while managing her own middle school drama pushes Nikki to her limits in this fifth Dork Diaries adventure.
Genres: fiction, humor, school-stories, contemporary, middle-grade
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking, whimsical
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
368 pages · Hardcover · Aladdin