This is the fourth book of the ‘Dork Diaries’
series. This book was awesome. Nikki Maxwell writes all her experiences in
her ‘Dork’ diary. She has three friends,
Chloe, Zoey and Brandon. A mean girl,
Mackenzie Hollister, always picks on her.
This book started with Nikki’s gym teacher
announcing a skating competition called ‘Holiday on Ice’ to raise funds for
charity. Each team has to choose a
charity to raise funds for. Mackenzie
was participating in the singles skating event and brags that so many charities
are begging her to skate for them. But,
Nikki, Chloe and Zoey, who form a team, have still not found a charity.
Just then, Brandon informs Nikki that he was
volunteering to work for a pet charity after called ‘Fuzzy Friends’. The charity was in need of money. So, the trio decide to skate for them.
Nikki visits the place with Brandon one day
and loves all the pups there. But,
unfortunately, a couple of days later, they found out that the owner of the
place, Phil Smith, broke his leg and was in the hospital. His wife, Betty Smith, was not able to manage
the place single – handedly and they were planning to close it.
Nikki visit Betty in person and explains to
her all about the skating competition and how they have planned to skate for
them. Betty was very grateful and she
told that, if they don’t have any money to run the place, they would soon close
it and move to Florida. This would
affect their grandson too.
When Nikki was going home, she found a boy
playing with some dogs in the charity’s backyard and thought that she
recognized him. When the boy suddenly
turned, Nikki found that it was Brandon!!
That’s why he was so keen on helping the animals in the charity and
raising funds for it.
Nikki did not want to let down Brandon, so
she decided to skate for the charity, even though she could not skate at
all. There were two practice sessions
before the big event, which would be monitored by a professional figure –
skater, Victoria Steel. She was so
strict, that during practice sessions, if anybody falls down during their
skating routine, she would reject them from the event.
Fortunately, Nikki, Chloe and Zoey made it
through the practice sessions, by distracting the judge and giving all sorts of
excuses. The big day had come. The prize was $3000. Additionally, $10000 would go to the team
which was crowd favorite.
The trio were to be dressed up as
fairies. Their costumes had been
selected by the costume director. But,
when they went somewhere and came back, their three fairy costumes were replaced
by three ugly clown costumes and clown wigs.
Nikki immediately found out that it was Mackenzie’s stupid prank. Still, they did not lose hope and wore those
clown outfits.
Soon, they got a note that their costumes had
been found and are told to come to a certain locker to collect their costumes. When the three of them enter the locker, they
realize that it was a trap because someone had locked the door behind
them. Only Chloe had her cell phone with
her, so she tried to contact their parents, but no one picked the call.
Suddenly, Nikki remembered that her phone was
in the dressing room and her little sister, Brianna, was begging to play games
in her phone. Nikki knew that Brianna
would still be around her phone, trying to snatch it. So, Nikki told Chloe to call her phone and
within five rings, Brianna picked the call and asked them where they were. She also told that Brandon was there. So, Nikki told Brianna to give the phone to
Brandon and when Brandon got the phone, she explained everything to him and
when she was about to tell him to rescue them, the phone went off without
battery.
The three of them thought that they won’t be
able to participate in the event, but just then, the door opened and to their
surprise, Brandon and Brianna were standing there. Nikki, Chloe and Zoey thanked both of them
for rescuing them and hurried to the event.
In the event, the first show was Mackenzie's
routine. She performed beautifully and
Nikki thought that she would be the crowd favorite. The next show was the trio’s routine. Just then Nikki got a brilliant idea.
Nikki did not know to skate. When she did her first movement itself, she
fell down. She thought that Victoria
Steel, the judge, would shout at her and asked them to leave the place. But, to their surprise, the crowd was
laughing and Victoria did not shout at them.
Nikki realized that they were wearing clown costumes and the job of
clowns was to make people laugh.
They did their routine very funnily, with the
three of them falling down and bumping into each other very often. At the end of the routine, there was a
surprise for everyone. Brianna jumped
out from a box, like a jumping jack.
This was Nikki’s brilliant idea.
The crowd gave them a standing ovation.
When the results were announced, they were shocked to hear that they
were the crowd favorite and got the $10000 cash prize, while Mackenzie, being
only the winner, got only $3000.
Brandon was also very happy. Somehow, the four friends had helped Fuzzy
Friends charity to function again. I liked
this book very much.
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