Jim Benton’s Dear Dumb Diary series of illustrated chapter books have been favorites of tweens (ages 8 – 12) for years, and they’re currently available in Kindle format at discount prices! This bestselling series includes such titles as:
Dear Dumb Dairy #1: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (4/5 stars, currently priced at $3.99)
Take a peek inside the diaries of Jamie Kelly! She’s cool (sometimes), nice (mostly), and funny (always). Kid-friendly humor & art, along w/JKBenton’s signature style make this series a standout!
Read the hilarious, candid (& sometimes mean) diaries of Jamie Kelly, who promises that everything in her diary is true…or at least as true as it needs to be. In this book, Jamie contends with Angeline, the school’s prettiest, most popular girl (who Jamie thinks is a goon!) and the impending visit of her troll-like little cousin. Will Jamie survive? Will she go mad? Will she send her mom’s nasty casserole to starving children in Wheretheheckistan? You’ll just have to read the first installment of Dear Dumb Diary to find out!
Dear Dumb Diary #2: My Pants Are Haunted (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $3.99)
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.
They were just a soft, ordinary pair of thrift-shop jeans until Jamie Kelly tried them on . . . Then they became a tight, scratchy, slightly smelly, and utterly ordinary pair of thrift-shop jeans with an embarrassing 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 the grade?
Are the haunted pants so dazzling they can hurt and maybe permanently damage the eyes of onlookers? Or are the haunted pants just, well, haunted (which is kind of gross when you think about it)?
Dear Dumb Diary #3: Am I the Princess or the Frog? (5/5 stars, currently priced at $3.99)
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.
Jamie is crushing on Hudson. Someone too-gross-to-be-named is crushing on Jamie.
And Hudson is crushing on . . . Princess Turd of Turdsylvania (a.k.a. The Prettiest Girl in the World).
Middle school may be grim, but it’s no fairy tale. And crazy doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Dear Dumb Diary #4: Never Do Anything, Ever (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $3.99)
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.
Her best friend’s a backstabber. Her worst enemy is a sweetheart. And her dog is just waiting for the right moment to seek his revenge.
Why should Jamie even bother going to school? Why not? After a run-in with Mega-Popular Angeline, aka Pure Evil, Jamie reforms her selfish ways & becomes the decent human being she never thought she could be.
But she quickly realizes that helping others kind of stinks. Is someone trying to thwart her attempts at irresistible inner beauty? Or will Jamie finally achieve the “I’m an angel” glow she knows will make Hudson Rivers fall madly in love w/ her?
Click here to browse all 12 titles in the Dear Dumb Diary series.
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