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Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl is the second book in the Dork Diaries series, written by Rachel Renee Russell. The book chronicles the life of main character Nikki Maxwell. This book was released in June 2010.

Plot
Nikki Maxwell is hoping her crush, Brandon Roberts, will ask her to the Halloween dance. But she is heartbroken when she overhears her nemesis, MacKenzie Hollister, bragging that she and Brandon are going to the dance together. Having nothing better to do on the night of the dance, Nikki reluctantly agrees to serve on the dance clean-up committee with her best friends, Chloe and Zoey, as well as help out at a ballet class Halloween party for her little sister, Brianna.

Nikki is shocked when Brandon asks her to the dance and realizes that MacKenzie was lying. However, in spite of her prior commitments, Nikki agrees to go with him and ends up spending the evening juggling three events at the same time.

Russell has said that the plot line in which Nikki is tripped in the cafeteria is based on her daughter Erin, who was similarly tripped by a wrestler.

Awards
Book 2 was on the New York Times Best Sellers list for 42 weeks and the USA Today Best Sellers list for 12 weeks, where it landed at No. 70. Books 1 and 2 appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers list simultaneously for 17 weeks, with the former peaking at #4 and the latter at #2.