<P> Fourteen - year - old Nikki Maxwell is not happy when her father arranges a scholarship for her to attend a private middle school called Westchester Country Day as part of the contract for his bug extermination services . Nikki does not fit in with the wealthy, designer clad students and spends most of her time alone writing in her diary . To make matters worse, she has a locker right next to the school's most popular girl, MacKenzie Hollister . MacKenzie labels Nikki as a "Dork" and goes out of her way to make Nikki's life miserable . </P> <P> It appears the new school may work out when Nikki befriends two other dorky but loyal girls, Chloe and Zoey . She even meets a really cute boy named Brandon . But, things take a turn for the worse when Nikki enters the school art show and discovers her main competition is her enemy, MacKenzie, who will stop at nothing to win . </P> <P> Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not - So - Popular Party Girl (Release date: June 8, 2010) </P> <P> Nikki Maxwell is hoping her crush, Brandon Roberts, will ask her to the Halloween dance . But she is heartbroken when she overhears her nemesis, MacKenzie Hollister, bragging that she and Brandon are going to the dance together . Having nothing better to do on the night of the dance, Nikki reluctantly agrees to serve on the dance clean - up committee with her best friends, Chloe and Zoey, as well as help out at a ballet class Halloween party for her little sister, Brianna . </P>

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