Synopsis

Dork Diaries 8: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After finds Nikki Maxwell dealing with some of her biggest middle-school challenges yet. As friendships are tested and misunderstandings spiral, Nikki worries that her own fairy-tale ending might be slipping away. Juggling school pressure, relationship drama, and her ongoing rivalry with Mackenzie, she must figure out how to stay true to herself when everything feels uncertain. Told through Nikki’s humorous diary entries filled with doodles and candid thoughts, the story blends laugh-out-loud moments with heartfelt lessons about honesty, resilience, and growing up.

About the Author

Rachel Renée Russell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dork Diaries, an international blockbuster series chronicling the life and misadventures of middle school students, Nikki Maxwell and her best friends Chloe and Zoey. With humor and wit, Rachel's books encourage tweens to embrace their individuality and always let their inner dork shine through. The Dork Diaries series has been translated into fifty-two languages worldwide and its characters are as diverse as the millions of tweens who read the books.

With more than fifty-five million books in print, the series has garnered such honors as two Kids' Book Choice Awards, an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, the Milner Award for Children's Literature, and a Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Book of the Year nomination. Rachel is also the author of a second New York Times bestselling series, The Misadventures of Max Crumbly, which received a Kids' Book Choice Award. Her daughter, Nikki Russell, is the illustrator for both book series. The mother-daughter team has released twenty-one consecutive New York Times bestsellers.