The parents of a teenager booted from her elite Manhattan private school for vaping say she was a victim of a bad influence — Dora the Explorer.

Well, at least the voice actress for Dora in the popular Nickelodeon show, who, the parents say in their Manhattan civil suit​ against the school, ​pressured her into smoking out of a vape pen, leading to her expulsion, while ​the actress ​Dora-girl got just ​a ​​three-day suspension.​

Parents Nadia Leonelli and Fredrik Sundwall say ​in their Manhattan civil suit that ​they helped found the $40,000-a-year ​Chelsea school ​Avenues:​ ​The World School​.

​But on Dec. 10, their 14-year-old, referred to ​only ​by her initials, M.S., in court papers, “was approached by her friend, F.P., who is a year older in 10th grade at Avenues, to go into the bathroom and try smoking flavored water vapor in a ‘vape’ pen that F.P. had borrowed from a fellow 10th grade classmate,” according to court papers.

The suit says M.S. “was reluctant to try but gave in to peer pressure, wanting to appear ‘cool’ in front of F.P. because she is older than M.S. and is a celebrity, being the actress who does the voice of Dora the Explorer on television and having a movie nominated for the Oscars.”

Fatima Ptacek, 1​​5, is the lead voice in the current iteration of the series, “Dora and Friends: Into the City!” The Queens teen also appeared in the 2013 Oscar-winning short film “Curfew.”

Leonelli and Sundwall complain in the suit that the girls were disciplined even though there wasn’t any tobacco or drugs in the vape pen, only caramel-flavored water.

But the true injustice, the suit says, is that child star Ptacek was only suspended for three days while their daughter was forced to withdraw and enroll in a new school mid-year.

The parents believe their daughter was the “scapegoat” and Ptacek got off because of her celebrity.

They’ve spent over $10,000 in legal fees fighting the school’s “inappropriate decision” and haven’t been refunded any of the $40,000 tuition even though the expulsion was just a few months into the school year, the suit says.

​A school spokesman declined comment, saying, “Matters involving litigation and discipline of students are private and confidential.” A rep for Ptacek did not immediately return a call for comment.