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Books in Dear Dumb Diary series

  • Let's Pretend This Never Happened. by Jamie Kelly

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Puffin Books, March 1, 2011)
    Book by Benton, Jim
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  • Dear Dumb Diary Boxed Set: Books #1-2 plus Diary

    Scholastic

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Sept. 1, 2009)
    The hilarious bestselling series --- now in a special gift format!All Jamie Kelly wants for Christmas is for people to STOP READING HER DIARIES! But where's the fun in that? Instead, see where the bestselling Dear Dumb Diary series all began with this brand-new boxed set --- just in time for the holidays!Inside the special fold-out box, you'll find Jamie's first two diaries, plus a paperback edition of Our Dumb Diary --- packed with quizzes, drawings, fill-ins, and more! Includes:Dear Dumb Diary #1: Let's Pretend This Never HappenedDear Dumb Diary #2: My Pants Are Haunted!Our Dumb Diary: A Journal to Share
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  • Dumbness is a Dish Best Served Cold

    Jim Benton

    Hardcover (Scholastic Press, June 28, 2016)
    Jamie Kelly is back and dumber than ever in this super-deluxe four-color Dear Dumb Diary special edition! Life at Mackerel Middle School is as dumb as ever -- but Jamie Kelly may have finally found the key to fame, fortune, and fabulousness. Together with Isabella and Angeline, she's come up with a moneymaking idea, and it has to do with food. Everyone likes food! They're going to be rich! The only problem? They have to come up with something that people actually want to eat. Jamie has some sophisticated thoughts on food, like, "She was manipulating us like dough. Like the sweet, delicious dough that we are. And she was baking us into the type of delicious cookies you can only get from dough like us. And she was putting sprinkles of us on top of us, and -- forget it. I'm hungry. I want some cookies." This is sure to go well.
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  • Dear Dumb Diary #8: It's Not My Fault I Know Everything

    Jim Benton

    Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic, March 1, 2009)
    New York Times Bestselling author Jamie Kelly is back with another hilarious, candid, and sometimes not-so-nice diary!Dear Dumb Diary,I went back and read some of my very oldest diaries. The entries say things like "I eated salad dressing" and "I got a Barbie shoe stuck in Stinker's nose again" and "The vet was mean to me about the Barbie shoe so I tried to bite him but vets are quick at not getting bit because dogs try all the time but dogs don't usually kick so I did that."What amazed me was just how dumb I used to be, considering how smart I am now. There must have been a day when I just woke up smart.
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  • Never Underestimate Your Dumbness

    Jim Benton

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, March 1, 2008)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jamie Kelly confides to her diary her experiences in middle school with a boy who likes to give insulting nicknames, cafeteria food, and gorgeous, perfect Angeline, the girl with the long blonde hair who sets all the trends.
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  • The Problem With Here Is That It's Where I'm From

    Jim Benton

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, July 1, 2007)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jamie Kelly confides to her diary her experiences in middle school with a boy who likes to give insulting nicknames, cafeteria food, and gorgeous, perfect Angeline, the girl with the long blonde hair who sets all the trends.
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  • Dear Dumb Diary #10: The Worst Things in Life Are Also Free

    Jim Benton

    Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, June 1, 2010)
    Bestselling author Jamie Kelly is back with an all-new, all-funny diary! But she has no idea that anybody is reading it. So please, please, please don't tell her.School's out for the summer, and that means no more Meat Loaf Thursdays, Sunday homework-cramming, or teachers (way way unsuccessfully) trying to act cool. It also means that certain Mackerel Middle Schoolers have a lot of time on their hands . . . and seriously empty pockets.Isabella is going to change all that. And Jamie and Angeline are going to help --- whether they like it or not. It's the best kind of teamwork: When a whole bunch of people work together to do something wrong, instead of doing it wrong one at a time.
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  • Never Do Anything, Ever: Jim Benton's Tales from Mackerel Middle School

    Jamie Kelly, Jim Benton

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-08-11, Aug. 11, 2008)
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  • Can Adults Become Human?

    Jamie Kelly, Jim Benton

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-08-11, Aug. 11, 2008)
    Read the hilarious, candid (and sometimes not-so-nice), diaries of Jamie Kelly, who promises that everything in her diary is true...or at least as true as it needs to be.Dear Dumb Diary,My social studies teacher, Mr. VanDoy, never smiles. I know that's hard to believe, because everybody smiles about something, right?Isabella smiles when her brothers get in trouble. Angeline smiles when she thinks about how much prettier she is than, like, a waterfall or a unicorn. I smile when I think about a unicorn kicking Angeline over a waterfall. But Mr. VanDoy doesn't smile at all. I wonder if when you become an adult, you can lose your sense of humor the way you lose your teeth or hair or fashion sense.
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  • Dear Dumb Diary: Totally Not Boring School Planner

    Jim Benton

    Diary (Scholastic Paperbacks, July 1, 2010)
    Organization is for people who are just too lazy to spend two hours looking for something. Get organized with this laugh-out-loud funny school planner, full of snark, wit . . . and stickers!This cool trifold format is packed with laughs! Jamie Kelly brings DDD fans a school planner with two sheets of stickers, a pen, and three interactive books: Glamorously Important Notes, All About Me, and Addresses of People I Don't Hate (Mostly). Complete with fill-ins, prompts, extra places to jot down assignments, and some brand-new full color art, this is one school planner everyone will want! After all, PLANNING to put something off until the day before it's due is a totally legitimate kind of planning.
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  • Never Underestimate Your Dumbness

    Jim Benton

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-05-16, May 16, 2008)
    Never Underestimate Your Dumbness (Dear Dumb Diary) [library] Benton, Jim [May 16, 2008]
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  • Dear Dumb Diary #9: That's What Friends Aren't For

    Jim Benton

    Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Jan. 1, 2010)
    Bestselling author Jamie Kelly is back with an all-new, all-funny diary! But she has no idea that anybody is reading it. So please, please, please don't tell her.Dear Dumb Diary,So now I'm friends with Angeline. This is automatic friendship, and I have to just accept it and make the best of things. See, if I objected, then Aunt Carol might divorce Angeline's uncle, sending both of them tumbling into a deep pit of depression for the rest of their lives, and Angeline could wind up feeling so guilty that she would have to go be locked up in an old dirty insane asylum for years and years, and Stinker's puppies could grow up not knowing both their parents --- and I couldn't live with myself for doing something like that to a puppy.
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