Dork Diaries: Crush Catastrophe (Volume 12)

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We found this an easy read for 9 -10 year olds but would also recommend it to up to 13yr olds as well. I wish the book was more clear because watching Nikki and Brandon beating around the bush is getting frustratingly confusing. Nikki and her friends don't believe that André would resort to stealing, but André confesses that it's true; he did in fact take Tiffany's phone, but he only did so because he overheard their plot to cyberbully Nikki and took it so he would have proof about it. If I was her age I wouldn't be able to stop myself from emulating Nikki and, really, that's not a bad thing! Nikki is looking forward to the end of term and the summer holidays when suddenly she’s hit by CRUSH-IT IS – like a TON of bricks!

So, instead, she decides to show them the e-mail she got about being accepted on the trip, but when she opens her inbox, she finds a new letter with an attachment of an altered photo of her holding a sign that says "I missed you, André!

Brandon comes by to see what Nikki is up to before school and sees she is having trouble keeping Daisy under control. Nikki accidentally hurts Brandon's feelings again by hanging out too much with André, leaving him thinking that they have feelings for one another. Her game piece is a moldy piece of pepperoni due to the box for Brianna's game being from an old pizza box. Then she has a problem she has the trip to Paris the same week as her tour and she doesn’t know which one to choose. Nikki tries to talk to Brandon to set things right and get him to understand, but he has to work on his Fuzzy Friends project.

And Nikki and Brandon's inevitable relationship is being dragged out a lot longer than it should be. The illustrated middle-grade series picks up as Nikki counts down to the end of the school year, and is questioning how she'll spend her summer.Nikki tries to explain to them, but every time she tries to get a word in edgewise, her friends explain to her that they had forfeited their original summer plans to instead go on the big tour together. The New York Times best-selling series Dork Diaries follows Nikki Maxwell as she chronicles her life - her move to a new school, her battles with queen bee MacKenzie and her zany adventures with her BFFs, Chloe and Zoey, by her side.