Dork Diaries: Once Upon a Dork

Between class schedules, best-friend drama and a rival who never lets up, Nikki Maxwell's journal turns ordinary school days into comedy. This instalment sits inside the Dork Diaries series created by Rachel Renee Russell, where every chapter arrives as a dated entry packed with sketches, lists and muttered asides. The format keeps the pace quick, and the voice stays firmly with a middle-schooler working out where she belongs. Each volume stands on its own while building an ongoing cast of friends, frenemies and exasperating family members. How it reads: • Diary entries broken up by cartoons, notes and scrawled margin remarks • A first-person narrator whose reactions drive most of the jokes • Recurring characters whose relationships shift from one book to the next • Paperback formatting that stays comfortable for newly independent readers Suited to upper-primary and early-secondary readers who like funny illustrated fiction, and to gift-buyers stocking a series shelf for a young reader. Find it at Boipoka.