Jim Benton
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Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Jamie Kelly writes in her diary about her new jeans, which seemingly cause events that affect both her popularity and her efforts to get close to the eighth cutest boy in school, Hudson Rivers.
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Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 9
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
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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.
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Dear dumb diary year two volume 1
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Jamie's struggles continue with school issues and grades, especially in math, as she ponders life's big questions.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
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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.
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IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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In this episode of Jim Benton's New York Times bestselling series, the classmates of Franny K. Stein show no appreciation for her passion-mad science. Even when Franny displays her two-headed robot, they show little interest. But after Franny makes herself invisible and whispers robot-improving suggestions, a few kids believe they've actually become mad scientists and cause the robot to run amuck. And as it's poised to destroy the library, Franny...
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Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 2
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Frannie tries to prevent chaos when her new lab assistant, Igor, a dog of many breeds, accidentally lets loose a giant, fifty-foot, arrow-shooting cupid.
15) Bad hair day
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IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Dear dumb diary year two volume 4
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Before school, Isabella had me fix her hair in the girls' bathroom. Her hair really is quite beautiful. It's black and thick and glossy, like the majestic hair on a lion if that was black. She had a test later, and she had written the answers on a slice of baloney in the sandwich she brought for lunch. If the teacher saw her, she could just eat the sandwich and destroy the evidence. But she wasn't thinking, and accidentally ate her lunch while I...
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Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 5
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Jamie Kelly shares with her diary her attempts to understand adults and how they act.