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In the style of the author's Amelia's series, fourth-grader Daphne writes creative, voice-driven diary entries about "disasters" in her life: when a teacher mispronounces her name everyone starts calling her Daffy, and a vampire costume turns out to be dorky, not cool. The hand-lettered text on pink notebook pages is enlivened by charismatic black-and-white line-drawing cartoons of Daphne's family and classmates. Review covers these titles: Daphne's Diary of Daily Disasters: The Name Game! and Daphne's Diary of Daily Disasters: The Vampire Dare!