Nikki Maxwell authors an advice column for the school newspaper in this fifth installment of the 1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series Nikki Maxwell develops a sudden interest in student journalism that may or may not okay, definitely does have to do with the fact that mean girl MacKenzie has started writing a gossip column. So Nikki joins the school newspaper staff-and ends up as an advice columnist It's fun at first, answering other kids' letters. But when Miss Know-It-All's inbox is suddenly overflowing with pleas for guidance, Nikki feels in need of some help herself.