The sixth Dork Diaries book lands in the middle of a school holiday season, where a dance, a crush and a diary that hides nothing collide.
Simon and Schuster Childrens Books publishes the paperback at 280 pages. Rachel Renée Russell's approach has not changed since the first volume and that is the point: dated entries, cartoons on almost every opening, and a narrator who is funniest when things go worst. The seasonal setting gives the book a clear shape, and the emotional material, wanting to be noticed and dreading being noticed at the same time, is handled without sentimentality.
What this book does well:
• Sixth instalment, set around a school holiday celebration
• Diary entries broken up with sketches and handwritten asides
• 280 pages in an easy-to-carry paperback binding
• Series humour that works for readers new to the books
Suited to middle-grade readers and to anyone collecting the series, published by Simon and Schuster Childrens Books and available through Boipoka.
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