Dear Dumb Diary: Am I the Princess or the Frog?

Jim Benton is not a middle-school girl, but do not hold that against him. He is the bestselling author of the Dear Dumb Diary series and is also the creator of many licensed properties for kids - big and small. Jim Benton lives in Michigan with his spectacular wife and kids. They do not have a dog, and they especially do not have a vengeful beagle.

More of the (nearly) true and absolutely hilarious confessions of Jamie Kelly . . . 
 
Jamie's best friend is planning to display a picture of Jamie next to her disgustingly stinky beagle, as part of a project to show how pets look like their people. Gee, thanks. 
 
And her mum, in a twisted plot created by the school dinner ladies, has been asked to cook meatloaf for the whole school. Mum's cooking - known for its ability to poison anyone who touches it. Mum's meatloaf - the food that even Stinker turns his nose up at. 
 
Can Jamie survive the shame?

Dear Dumb Diary: My Pants are Haunted

The (nearly) true confessions of Jamie Kelly. 
 
They were just an ordinary soft pair of second-hand jeans until Jamie Kelly tried them on. Then they became tight, smelly &amp; scratchy - with a bit of a haunting problem! 
 
Do the pants have the power to soothe a vengeful beagle, vanquish The Prettiest Girl in the World, or make the wearer irresistible to the eighth cutest guy in school? Or are the haunted pants just, well, haunted? Kind of gross when you think about it...

Dear Dumb Diary: Let's Pretend This Never Happened

The (nearly) true confessions of Jamie Kelly. 
 
Dear whoever is reading My Dumb Diary 
 
Are you sure you're supposed to be reading someone else's diary? Maybe I told you that you could, so that's OK. But if you are Angeline, I did NOT give you permission, so stop it. 
 
 
Dear Dumb Diary, 
 
School was OK today. Angeline got her hair tangled up in one of the jillion things she has dangling from her backpack, and the school nurse - who is now one of my main heroes - snipped half a metre of silky blonde hair from the left side of her head, so now Angeline only looks like The Prettiest Girl in the World if you're standing on her right.

Jim Benton

More (nearly) true confessions from the diaries of Jamie Kelly. 
 
A hilarious middle-schooler's diary about her stinky beagle, mad best friend, disgustingly lovely rival and unrequited crush on the eighth-best-looking boy in the class. It's Wimpy Kid with a girl central character. Fantastic black and white cartoons throughout.

Jim Benton

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