Dork Diaries Once Upon A Dork 🎁
The Enchanted Chaos of Once Upon a Dork In the ninth installment of Rachel Renée Russell’s Dork Diaries series, Once Upon a Dork , the boundary between Nikki Maxwell’s everyday middle-school struggles and the realm of pure fantasy dissolves. Following a literal "bonk" on the head during gym class, Nikki is transported into a fractured fairy-tale world where the people in her life take on legendary roles. While the setting changes to a magical kingdom, the core themes of the series—friendship, resilience, and the battle against social cruelty—remain as relevant as ever.
I knew I had to call in the cavalry.
The “enchanted forest” was just Principal Winston’s office plants. The “magic mirror” was a fogged-up bathroom mirror. And guess who was already there, posing dramatically in front of a cardboard throne? dork diaries once upon a dork
The Royal Storybook Palace (aka the gymnasium of North Hampton Hills International Academy)
“This is no dream!” she insisted. “You must come. But there’s a problem.” She shuffled her tiny feet. “The Big Bad Wolf ate the invitation. And the evil queen spilled glitter glue on the glass slipper. And Rumpelstiltskin… well, he turned the carriage into a giant zucchini.” The Enchanted Chaos of Once Upon a Dork
“Well, well,” she smirked. “The dork brigade arrived in a hamper . How storybook.”
She was the evil queen all along.
“OMG a fairy?? Did she have contouring? Fairies always have great cheekbones.” Zoey: “More importantly, what’s the dress code?”
Chloe and Zoey did an interpretive dance about two bagels falling in love. The crowd went wild. I knew I had to call in the cavalry
: Like its predecessors, it quickly climbed the New York Times Bestseller list, cementing the "Dork Diaries" brand as a powerhouse in middle-grade fiction.