Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All (Dork Diaries #5)

Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All (Dork Diaries #5) – Rachel Renée Russell

Nikki Maxwell has a new job at school, and it comes with a lot more responsibility than she expected.

In Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All, the fifth book in Rachel Renée Russell’s bestselling Dork Diaries series, Nikki suddenly develops an interest in student journalism. It might have something to do with the fact that her rival, the mean girl MacKenzie, has just started writing a gossip column for the school newspaper.

Nikki joins the newspaper staff and ends up writing the advice column as Miss Know-It-All. At first it is great fun to answer her classmates’ letters and solve their problems. But as her inbox fills up with more and more requests for help, and her own life gets complicated with friends Chloe and Zoey and her crush Brandon, Nikki starts to realise that she could use some advice herself.

Written as Nikki’s diary and filled with her funny doodles and drawings, the book is easy to read and full of the humour, friendship and middle-school drama that fans love. Its diary format and illustrations make it especially good for readers who are building their confidence in English.

Funny, warm and relatable, Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All is ideal for readers aged about 9 to 13 and for anyone who enjoys stories about friendship, school life and growing up.