Dork Diaries Holiday Heartbreak Paperback

School dance politics, a charity drive and the usual tangle of crushes give Nikki Maxwell plenty to record. The story works through small crises that feel enormous at that age: who is going with whom, who said what, and how quickly a plan can collapse in public. Nikki writes it in her own hand, with sketches, lists and capitalised outbursts doing as much work as the sentences. This 384-page paperback is among the longer books in the run, though the illustration-heavy layout keeps it approachable for a reader still building confidence. The takeaway: • A dance-and-fundraiser plot driven by middle-school social pressure • Hand-drawn illustrations woven through every entry • 384 pages in paperback from Simon and Schuster • One of the longer entries in the series, without a harder reading level Written for young readers who follow Nikki's school year, and easy to add to a series collection at Boipoka.