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|title=Dork Diaries: Dear Dork

|author=Rachel Renee Russell

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780857079367

|pages=336

|publisher=Simon and Schuster

|date=October 2012

|summary=Yet another entrant to this series, which shows no real sign of ending soon – but neither does it show any of the flaws you might expect it to have started to have by now.

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You can see how easy it would be for a series of children's books to settle into a stale formula, repeating the same idea time over time until the last drop of originality had dried in the sun and the coordinated covers were bleached into off-white. The characters got boring, their interactions meaningless, and the author covered old ground for the hell of it for one last buck. Now look at this series, and in particular this fifth full, proper title in it, and you'll see just how that hasn't happened.

For a book for this audience (or perhaps slightly younger) with a genre edge, we enjoyed [[Monstrous Maud:Big Fright by A B Saddlewick]].

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