Good morning and welcome to the daily with still Stein through and grip M which presents the copy chronicles I am still Stein. I'm so happy to be with you guys today on another show of the daily with still Stein through and grip M I feel like I haven't been on and I wanted to do an author spotlight on The dork diaries by Rachel Renee Russell, so I'm gonna start with that but first and foremost, I hope you're enjoying your coffee this morning and I'm really happy to be back with you guys doing another show of the daily with still Stein through and grip M I feel like I don't get on as much as I should but I've been really busy with work So I'm gonna have to figure out how to balance it or just keep the show either on Saturdays or Sundays where I do the daily Or when I'm off, of course, I can do more shows, but sorry I was drinking my coffee kind of quick But I'm gonna go and shut the door before I get background noise because my sons are in the other room I just finished a beautiful mess with holy family live stream So I'm really really energized and had a really good breakfast thanks to my wonderful husband Jeremy Who made me a delicious breakfast of eggs and ranch style beans, which I love so those of you that are from Texas and maybe most Maybe other people do too But I grew up eating ranch style beans in the morning with with my eggs and I really love them Or free hola and chados as we say in in Texas So here we go. I'm gonna do an author spotlight on Rachel Renee Russell So we'll be right back with the daily with still Stein through and grip M Which presents the coffee chronicles and we'll be right back and welcome back to the daily with still Stein through and grip M presents the coffee chronicles as well and we're talking about coffee of course I'm enjoying my breakfast blend coffee with the really really amazing mug that my husband got me that we put it through the After you put the like heat on it, and you know with the coffee pores to heat, you know the water It turns into you know this beautiful couple and a beautiful message and the mug is just beautiful You can look at it on my Instagram and I'm enjoying my breakfast blend right now But today's author spotlight is on American author Rachel Renee Russell Rachel Renee Russell is an American Russell is an American author of the children's book series Torque Diaries and it's been off the misadventures of Max Crumbly Russell grew up in St. Joseph, Michigan and as four younger siblings and she's a best-selling author She's got awards from the NAACP for our standard literary work or children's works Okay, here it is and Then she's a New York Times best-selling author and she's just you know she's written of course, you know A lot of books she's got over 35 and more books starting with the Dorque Diaries, which I'm gonna talk about today That is the series that she began with And she writes about the Dorque Diaries, which was inspired by her dorky daughter Nikki who also illustrates the books over daughter illustrates the books many of the dramatic tales zany escapades and exciting adventures Chronicles and the books are based on real-life experiences from her from her She says from our own middle school years.
So that's that's what's so great about the story It says Okay, let me see and then of course she is the she has four younger siblings two sisters and two brothers and she wrote She wrote you know she has written several books of the dork diaries series. So let me go into her books here The first one is the dork diaries Tales from a not so fabulous life Okay, this is that's the first book Dorque Diaries Tales from a not so fabulous life and it talks about of course the main character is Nikki Maxwell And she's starting 8th grade at a new school and her very first day is packed with hilarious stories and art in the super Squee updated edition of book one of the number one New York Times best selling Dorque Diaries series Nikki confesses all in her first diary ever Her epic battle with her mom for an iPhone meeting her new soon to be BFF Chloe and Zoey's Pauling for a Dorvly sweet crush Brandon So there's a lot of stuff going on here and my daughter loves the series And it's like I said, it's perfect because like for my daughter She's 11 she's in 5th grade right now and she will be going to middle school and so is her best friend Lillian They're both gonna be starting middle school and this is a perfect book for you know, especially for girls that you know In the elements we love I think anywhere from I don't know as early as third through middle school grade This is a perfect book for them and it comes in a lot of different stories She also has tales from a not so talented pop star here, let's see let's see Nikki Maxwell has been doing everything she can to keep up To keep everyone at school from learning the truth as she's there on a scholarship exchange for her dad working as the school's Exterminator the last thing Nikki needs is having her friends and worst-case scenario her crush branding Brandon associating her with a Humongous roach on top of her dad's van now. It looks like her secret could be out to come out and Nikki's willing to go 20 zany and whacking like to prevent them from happening so there's a lot going on in Nikki Maxwell's life And then it has the different books that it comes with she's got many different books so far for the door diaries Then there's a tales from a not so Tales from a not so secret. Hold on here Crush catastrophe and so forth and you know, she's got a repertoire of books that Rachel Renee Russell has and it's like I said It's a diary base and of course She just said that her daughter her own daughter helps her with the illustration So it's kind of like a graphic novel kind of a diary of the wimpy kid type of book and it she's got so much so many books And I think this is a really amazing series that that girls, you know, especially around the elementary like starting maybe in third Fourth grade up until middle school could read and you know, there's so many books out right now and and basically It I think there's over four I think it's about 14 books on the door diaries and then of course She also has the give me a second here.
She also has the the misadventures of Max crumbly and these are books Let's see. I'm not too familiar with these so I'm gonna go these are best books ages 9 to 12 a brand new series from number one New York Times best-seller door diaries author Rachel Renee Russell Introducing Max crumbly Max crumbly is about to paste the scariest place has ever been South Ridge middle school so it's also about you know another type of protagonist or main character and There's a lot a lot that's great about his new school, but there's a lot also one bit problem Doug the school bully whose hobby is stuffing Max in his locker So now we have Max crumbly dealing with his own misadventures and she recommends best books ages 9 to 12 That's what they recommend for this group. So it's also like elementary to middle school Well, actually even higher than middle school. It says here there for ages according to this Second let me look this up again.
I can't open the book. It's for ages 9 through 12 so yeah around elementary through the middle school level so that those are perfect and then of course the door diaries I'm pretty sure it's the same and I like recommending these books because I have been working at school and you know kids love to read as much like my daughter She loves to read many books and the door diaries has been a series of favorite of hers along with Rayna Tegan Meyer and her series as well. Let's see here These are ages I Will say elementary to middle school even though here it doesn't specifically say but I think that's recommended for Ages elementary through middle school as well. So I hope you check out the door diaries Please read all about Rachel Renee Russell.
I think that's hope I said that correctly Let's see Rachel Renee Russell. Let me see here. She has a website Okay Rachel Renee Russell as I said is a New York Times best selling author and attorney who prefers writing children's books to legal briefs The dork diaries series has received two children's choice awards for book of the year 56th great division and Nickelodeon kids choice award nomination for best book Rachel was the recipient of the 214 Milner award for children's literature the series sold over 30 million copies with translations into 36 languages worldwide More rewrites have been option by Lionsgate Summit Films Rachel resides in northern Virginia visit the exciting door diaries website at here We go www.dork diaries.com So I hope that you'll you'll read all about Rachel Renee Russell in this author spotlight I hope you've enjoyed This daily of the sorry the daily whistle sign through and grab and presents the coffee chronicles and I'm glad I was able to do this show Even though it's short I wanted to come on here and give another spotlight And I'll be trying to share more books especially for younger or between elementary middle school high school level I'll try to share even for the younger like the pre-k of course It's also elementary but the pre-k and kinder. I'll try to share books for the younger reader as well And mainly because I work at school and I work in a library I do a lot of that that I'm able to help out and I see so many different types of books So I'll be sharing more about that as well I hope you've enjoyed the daily whistles time to rank FM I'm enjoying my coffee and I hope you'll check out the books by the amazing author Rachel Renee Russell New York Times best-selling author and her dork diaries series and again check out her website at www.dork D-O-R-K Diaries D-I-A-R-I-E-S dot com and I hope you all have a great day Have a have a most amazing one a blessed one happy Sunday and thank you for joining me for the daily whistles time through anchor FM Which also presents the coffee chronicles This has been an author spotlight on Rachel Renee Russell And I hope you've enjoyed the talk of coffee and books and please send in your pictures of you and join your coffee Send them into the at the daily with so Stein through anchor FM you can send them through the and on Instagram I have at the daily with so Stein or you could also email me at sillrider07 at gmail.com So I hope you all have a great day and again, thank you for joining me today through anchor FM for the daily whistles time Here on anchor FM and also presents the coffee chronicles.
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