Nikki Maxwell enters a talent competition in this third installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! Nikki Maxwell has been doing everything she can to keep everyone at school from learning the truth-that she's there on scholarship in exchange for her Dad working as the school's exterminator. When a major talent competition is announced with a school scholarship offered as the top prize, it's the perfect opportunity Nikki has been waiting for. Can she sing and dance her way to letting her dad (and her reputation!) off the hook? Editorial Reviews Nikki Maxwell harbors an odious secret, as large as the giant roach model that sits atop her father's exterminator company van. Nikki is understandably terrified that her private school classmates will learn that she owes her presence there to a scholarship linked to her father's pest-ridding talents. When the possibility of a talent show prize offers her an opportunity to free herself from the varmint curse, she jumps to perform. An entertaining addition to a crowd-pleasing series. - Truly adorable illustrations grace this popular Wimpy-Kid-for-girls diary of a lower-middle-class tween maneuvering through cliques and drama at her ritzy private school. Poor Nikki is a scholarship student, part of the deal her father, as school exterminator, cut with the school. And his truck sports a giant, disgusting roach on top as advertising! Russell is an attorney but is said to prefer writing tween books to legal briefs. If Dork Diaries keeps up its ascent, maybe she can trade in those little black suits for comfy bunny slippers. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Library Journal