My Pants are Haunted

My Pants are Haunted PDF Author: Jim Benton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Dear Dumb Diary

Dear Dumb Diary PDF Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141335807
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
"Jim Benton's tales from Mackerel Middle School."

Never Do Anything, Ever (Dear Dumb Diary #4)

Never Do Anything, Ever (Dear Dumb Diary #4) PDF Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545649455
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
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?

Dumbness Is a Dish Best Served Cold

Dumbness Is a Dish Best Served Cold PDF Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545932939
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Return to Mackerel Middle School with a special full-color extra-dumb diary from the New York Times–bestselling author! 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. Praise for Jim Benton’s books “An amusing antic sensibility.” —Publishers Weekly “Preteens will be onboard immediately.” —Kirkus Reviews

Am I the Princess or the Frog? (Dear Dumb Diary #3)

Am I the Princess or the Frog? (Dear Dumb Diary #3) PDF Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545649447
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
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.

When Bad Clothes Happen to Good People

When Bad Clothes Happen to Good People PDF Author: Jim Benton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439951555
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Can an ordinary pair of jeans have the power to ward off a toothy beagle, vanquish the prettiest girl in the world and make the wearer irresistible to the eight cutest guys in Jamie's class? Or are the haunted pants just, well, haunted?

Me! (Just Like You, Only Better)

Me! (Just Like You, Only Better) PDF Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 0545456169
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
Middle schooler Jamie Kelly returns with another dumb diary: “You’ll laugh out loud at what this girl has to say.” —Knight Ridder Tribune Dear Dumb Diary, I went five whole days without seeing or hearing from Angeline. I was beginning to get used to it. It’s true that I have learned to overlook many of Angeline’s flaws, like her flawlessness, but she can still be difficult to be around. Like when she’s lit perfectly, for example. To my extreme credit, I have learned to pretend to ignore Angeline’s failure to not be perfect. 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 . . . Praise for New York Times–bestselling author Jim Benton’s books “An amusing antic sensibility.” —Publishers Weekly “Preteens will be onboard immediately.” —Kirkus Reviews

Haunted Houses

Haunted Houses PDF Author: Corinne May Botz
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 1580932916
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
“When I was between the ages of five and eight, my sister and I slept in a large attic bedroom. At nightfall the room was filled with gypsies who glided around in clusters. They wore colorful thin flowing dresses and rummaged greedily through my drawers and books as if they would steal everything. I lay in bed as stiff as a board, trying to will myself invisible, praying they would not notice me looking . . . Daylight obliterated the gypsies, rendering them as thoroughly insubstantial as they had been real in the dark. I had a vague understanding that my vision was private, so I never told my family what I saw.” So began Corinne May Botz’s fascination with the invisible, a phenomenon that has profoundly influenced her approach to photography in style and subject matter. For more than ten years, she searched for ghost stories in buildings across the United States. She ventured into these haunted places with both camera and tape recorder in hand; her photographs, accompanied by first-person narratives, reveal a rare glimpse into American interiors, both physical and psychological. This book includes more than eighty haunted buildings, from the legendary to the ordinary, including Edgar Allan Poe’s house in Baltimore, a New Jersey tavern, and a Massachusetts farmhouse, a log cabin in Kentucky, and a number of private residences. The text includes ghost stories told to the author by those who lived through the moving rugs, creaking floors, apparitions, disappearing—and reappearing—objects, cries in the night, mysteriously burning candles, and other unexplained occurrences.

Ghosts of Christmas Past

Ghosts of Christmas Past PDF Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1473663474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slips across the floor by firelight. A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams. Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail - so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.

Can Adults Become Human? (Dear Dumb Diary #5)

Can Adults Become Human? (Dear Dumb Diary #5) PDF Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545295564
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
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.