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But as Nikki stared at MacKenzie’s smug face, a line from page one-seventy-two echoed in her head: “Sometimes, the best way to deal with a bully isn’t to fight back. It’s to make them laugh… at themselves.”

Before anyone could stop her, Nikki drew a quick, terrible doodle on the whiteboard. It was a princess in a sparkly crown, but with giant buck teeth and a unibrow. Underneath, she wrote: “MacKenzie’s New Year’s Resolution: Find a personality that isn’t just her phone case.”

She didn’t laugh. But she didn’t scream, either. She just stared at the doodle, then at the book, and for a split second, her sneer softened into something almost like… curiosity. dork diaries books new

Click. Snap.

Then she drew a tiny hamster wearing a crown and smiled. But as Nikki stared at MacKenzie’s smug face,

She pulled out her real diary, the one with the broken lock and the chewed-up corners, and wrote one line:

Nikki Maxwell was pretty sure her heart had actually stopped. She pulled out her real diary

For the next forty-eight minutes, the world ceased to exist. Nikki, Chloe, and Zoey huddled in their corner table, devouring chapter after chapter. MacKenzie Hollister, who normally patrolled the library like a perfume-soaked shark, was too busy facetiously ‘studying’ by the window to notice.