Jim Benton
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Being a mad scientist in the modern world is very hard work. With so much that needs to be done in such a short period of time, multitasking can get way out of hand. Franny needs some additional help. But for Franny there is only one person in the world she trusts to help her with her experiments--herself. So she acquires assistance the mad scientist way, by building a few real, live, steel-plated Franbots.
5) Bad hair day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Franny tries to follow her mother's suggestion to change her appearance, but by turning hair styling into a science experiment she creates some very greedy pigtails that terrorize the town.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 9
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
Jamie is upset because she is now automatic friends with her old enemy Angeline, and so she tries to find something that she and her real friend, Isabella, can do together for the school talent show without Angeline.
Author
Series
Catwad volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Catwad and Blurmp are back and ready for more adventures in this newest volume in which they meet new friends, try out yoga (spoiler alert: Catwad hates it), and more! It's a laugh-out-loud romp not to be missed, even if Catwad claims otherwise.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jamie finds out her friend Isabella has joined two extracurricular clubs that meet in the mornings. Isabella made her join them both also, but Jamie is beginning to feel competitive about her perfect future as opposed to Isabella's perfect future. She sees herself spending her time trying to sabatoge Isabella's plans.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary year two volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jamie continues to wrestle with school, grades, and middle school's big questions.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 12
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Jamie Kelly is back with an all-new diary involving Angeline, her "flawless" friend.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 7
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
"...Isabella is probably right. She almost always is...But of all the dumb things she's ever done, this has got to be the dumbest..."--Cover back.
13) Clyde
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An all-new original graphic novel by the author of The NewYork Times-bestselling series Dear Dumb Diary. Dog Man author Dav Pilkeysays: "Jim Benton is a comic genius and a brilliant cartoonist!" WhenClydethe bear decides toditch his safe and peaceful life in Cubville and head off for the mean streets of Grizzly City he learns, with the help of a reformed juvenile delinquent butterfly, the Bad Life isn't always so great, and there's something to be...
15) The handbook
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
There's nothing Jake likes more than some good trash-picking, so when his elderly neighbors move out and leave an especially promising-looking pile of household refuse on the curb, he goes right for it. He only has the chance to grab one box before his mom catches him and orders him in for dinner, though. When mysterious goings-on begin to occur in the neighborhood, Jack and his friends investigate the hidden box from Jack's garage. In it, they find...
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 3
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Author
Series
Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 5
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Description
Jamie Kelly writes in her diary about her social studies teacher, Mr. VanDoy, the budding relationship between her Aunt Carol and Assistant Principal Devon, and the real story behind Isabella's detention.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 6
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
Jamie Kelly shares with her diary her excitement about the fact that students from Wodehouse Middle School will be going to Mackerel Middle School temporarily.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Description
In her diary, middle school student Jamie Kelly describes her life at home and at school, including her attempts to triumph over her nemesis, the beautiful and popular Angeline.