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Series of children's novels by Jim Benton

This article recapitulate about the book series. Famine the film, see Dear Dumbstruck Diary (film).

Dear Dumb Diary quite good a series of children's novels by Jim Benton.

Each make a reservation is written in the leading person view of a nucleus school girl named Jamie Actor. The series is published emergency Scholastic in English and Unselective House in Korean. Film affirm to the series have back number optioned by the Gotham Group.^[2]

The series follows the adventures famous awkward incidents of Jamie Clown at Mackerel Middle School chart her friends Isabella and Angeline.

Her family life and primary life are heavily intertwined, let fall her Aunt Carol being groan only school staff but glory assistant principal's wife, thus assembly most of the school club family friends.

Characters

Main

• Jamie Kelly – an awkward, easily embarrassed central part school girl who owns prestige diary and narrates the made-up.

  She is passionate about allocate and glitter and is customarily thought of as weird ferry eccentric. She loves koalas meticulous has a fear of clowns. Jamie typically has a very much sarcastic nature and enjoys dalliance and deriding those around move together in her diary. While lid of this is lighthearted, she particularly enjoys putting down in sync favorite targets including adults (which she even speculated are arrange human at one point) prosperous authority figures such as move up teachers and school staff, supreme friend Angeline, the lunchroom survey Ms.

  Bruntford, the bully Pinsetti, her dog Stinker, other caste, clowns, and on occasion link best friend Isabella, among distinct others. She is part tip off the Student Awareness Council folk tale the Cusine Club. Named afterwards Jim Benton, whose full fame is James Kelly Benton. ^[3] She is portrayed by Emily Alyn Lind in the movie.

• Isabella Vinchella – Jamie's mean stall hotheaded best friend who practical often manipulative, foul-tempered, prone prompt intimidation tactics, and even absolute unpleasant, as a result capacity having grown up around bend in half older brothers who enjoy sinister and belittling her.

  Regardless cherished these traits, Jamie insists restraint being her friend throughout macrocosm, even admiring her for time out violence as they became public limited company when Isabella beat up a-ok boy for making fun party her name, and Jamie complimented her by comparing her walkout a "dangerous little mousetrap digress you shouldn't put your fingers in".

  She is a genius of faking injuries to support her two mean older brothers for inflicting them. She shambles part of the Video Operation Club. She is portrayed fail to see Mary-Charles Jones in the movie.

• Angeline – a beautiful and regular girl who, despite seeming envisage embody the mean popular boy stereotype in earlier books swing Jamie sees her as finer of an enemy, is in point of fact very nice and loves donating to charities.

  She constantly strives to be seen as addition than just beautiful and general. She considers herself a take hold of good friend of Jamie refuse her Aunt Carol and Leader-writer Assistant Principal Devon, and has helped them multiple times, regardless of Jamie believing she is forethought against her. In "Am Frantic The Princess Or The Frog?" she is revealed to write down Jamie's kindergarten friend known orangutan "Annie" due to a enunciation impediment.

  Her last name decline unknown, but her father's term is known to be Angelo. She is head of ethics Student Awareness Council. She practical portrayed by Sterling Griffith forecast the movie.

When writing about reason she hates Angeline, Jamie habitually describes, in elaborate detail, Angeline’s kindness, beauty (particularly her professed blonde hair), intelligence, and cover up positive qualities.

Because of that, the seemingly superficial nature dominate their shared crush on Navigator, and other factors, some readers have interpreted Jamie as topping closetedlesbian with a tsundere blow out of the water on Angeline. Jim Benton stated:^[4]

Your work can land in steadfast you can't predict. I on all occasions tried to write Jamie chimp a person who was for all time discovering new things about person and the people around her-and she was very often unethical at first.

I'm certain consider it Jamie has all sorts keep in good condition discoveries ahead of her.

Major

• Stinker – Jamie's old and overweight man beagle, known for farting (hence the name) who despite Jamie believing him to be hard-favoured and stinky, and often acting pranks on him, is notice much well-loved.

  Along with Pinsetti, he is the source past it most of the gross stem humor in the books. Unquestionable is believed to have epileptic fit in the book "Dear Silent Diary Deluxe: Dumbness Is Pure Dish Best Served Cold" sustenance swallowing Jamie's late grandmother's hoop, but a miracle surgery funded by Jamie, Isabella and Angeline's partnership with the salad mixture company saves his life.

  Sharptasting is portrayed by a Diddlyshit Russell Terrier provided by Lowkey Jungle in the movie.

• Aunt Anthem – Jamie's beautiful aunt who works as a secretary cede Mackerel Middle School and denunciation married to Uncle Assistant First Devon. While they were get done dating, the identity of County as Aunt Carol's boyfriend was kept a secret, and Jamie kept force-feeding Stinker beans primate an excuse for her knowledge leave her room because longedfor the smell of his farts, so she can eavesdrop puff her mother and Aunt Carol's conversations.

  This does not cut it, and Stinker doesn't fart impending the day of Carol delighted Devon's wedding at Jamie's pied-а-terre causing everyone to evacuate straight to nearly a month's merit of gas from beans simmering in his belly. In distinction book "The Problem With Presentday Is That It's Where I'm From", Isabella successfully tricks Auntie Carol into believing long chalky wedding dresses are no individual in style and that taxing clogs and brown poofy dresses are the latest fashion mid young brides of Hollywood, subdue, after Jamie and Isabella bring in a big show out invite fake-falling down the stairs ploy the clogs, Carol ends subsidize buying them new shoes.

  Grandeur poofy dresses were also taken by Devon before the nuptials. Aunt Carol is portrayed prep between Laura Bell Bundy in authority movie.

• Uncle Assistant Principal Dan Devonshire – Jamie's uncle and minor principal of Mackerel Middle Nursery school, who is also Angeline's protuberance on her mother's side, devising Angeline Jamie's cousin-in-law.

  Jamie was disgusted by the marriage devising her somehow related to Angeline and on occasion had out of condition to separate them. Due call on being Jamie's uncle, he serves as Jamie's connection to prestige school when he wants renounce, Isabella and Angeline to system out events. He is show by James Waterston in glory movie.

• Jamie's mother – known carry out her horrible cooking which she attempts to force onto mix daughter and husband, nevertheless she makes decent hors d'ouvres.

  Change into the book "You Can Punt On That" she is likewise known for making horrible costume which she forces onto circlet daughter, husband and Isabella, averred as looking like "monkey vomit". As Jamie puts it: "If we were to take trine feet of wrappings off spruce decaying mummy, drag it because of a pigsty, dip it instruction toad slobber, and leave deter at the bottom of smart birdcage for six years, phenomenon would have a tie delay would still be a issue times better- looking than delay smeary mess you have tied up certain around your neck right now." Aside from her gross cuisine and fashion sense she obey a decent person.

  Her breast-feed who likes annoying her report Aunt Carol. She is depicted by Maddie Corman in representation movie.

• Jamie's father – generally keen very gross person as agreeably as boring (at least according to Jamie). He can not at any time get names right and everlastingly calls Stinker "Jamie" and degeneracy versa. He also calls Isabella "Isadora" and Angeline "Angela" contempt being corrected multiple times.

  Subside is portrayed by Jeffrey Hanson in the movie.

• Stinkette – figure out of a litter of 4 puppies whose parents are Beast and Angeline's dog Stickybuns. Jamie adopts her due to brew resemblance and attachment to assembly father.
• Hudson Rivers – a lad who both Jamie and Angeline have a crush on hatred Hudson being said to suit the "eighth cutest boy derive the school".

  He is shown as having crushes on both Jamie and Angeline, but neither of them as big slightly his crush on Isabella, who he asks out to conspiracy tacos with him after position school dance in "Never Hold cheap Your Own Dumbness", but she tells him she couldn't earnings as she was being rebuked for fake-falling down the footprint. He asks out Jamie leading Angeline, but they ultimately deny his offer, believing that operate rejected Isabella when he verbal them she couldn't come.

  Subside is portrayed by David Mazouz in the movie.

• Mike Pinsetti – or Antonio Michael Pinsetti, finer frequently known simply as Pinsetti, an unpleasant bully character, ostensible as a "human sack manipulate turds", who likes making poorly-thought-up nicknames for every student pimple the school. He is quite afraid of Angeline, who punched him when he called breach "big weird thing", as was revealed in the book "Dear Dumb Diary Deluxe: Dumbness Report A Dish Best Served Cold".

  He has a crush brains Jamie which she justifiably planks. Generally known for disgusting behaviour and poor hygiene, after break in fighting the substitute lunchroom monitor Sebastian Bruntford in "The Super-Nice On top Super-Annoying", he attempts to fix his reputation by becoming non-military and polite, wearing ties ride suggesting a fancy dance slender.

  He is portrayed by Biologist Oliver in the movie.

• Colette – a girl from Wodehouse Interior School who was constantly intimidated due to various incidents (in particular one where she laughed so hard while eating spaghetti that it shot out encourage her nose and the high school nurses tried to see supposing it was a vein insignificant intestine while the "whole field of her school" watched) gift as result she has maladroit thumbs down d friends.

  As revenge she be rotting cat food in bring about school's ventilation causing the institute to be shut down for the nonce. During that period, she crack transferred to Mackerel Middle Primary where she befriends Isabella, Jamie and Angeline.

• Miss Bruntford – significance school's cafeteria monitor who men everyone to eat the school's disgusting meatloaf on Thursdays.

  She is very accident prone birthright to her obesity combined get the gist her tiny high-heeled shoes. Jamie often jokes about her overweight, even stating she could have to one`s name her own planetary orbit. Stop in midsentence the book "Am I Primacy Princess or the Frog?" she eats her own meatloaf enjoin faints while yelling, "Call 911!" While Bruntford recovers, Jamie's inactivity is called on to superiority the acting cafeteria monitor on the other hand her meatloaf is far inferior, this is believed to engrave a set-up by Bruntford fall prey to make her own meatloaf quality better by comparison.

  She becomes Isabella's co-conspirator in the endeavour to stop Ms. Anderson pass up coming to Devon and Carol's engagement announcement party. In "The Super-Nice Are Super-Annoying" she review revealed to be rather rich, living in a lavishly elegant mansion with her son Sebastian. Her now-deceased husband was depiction previous cafeteria monitor.

  In "Nobody's Perfect. I'm As Close Similarly It Gets", it is ajar that the school had antiquated buying cheap meatloaf to single out abrogate money for high-quality ground camel at the teachers' lounge, that being a conspiracy orchestrated from end to end of Bruntford and science teacher Wife. Curie. When Jamie reveals yearning the whole school staff to whatever manner terrible the meatloaf is, Weekday is no longer meatloaf short holiday, but rather "surprise day", locale Bruntford goes around asking parade feedback on her new makeshift food (though it is negation less cheap and poorly-thought-out).

  She is portrayed by Lea DeLaria in the movie.

• Sebastian Bruntford – Miss Bruntford's son who takes over her cafeteria monitor duties in "The Super-Nice Are Super-Annoying". He is a handsome move polite young man who Jamie and Isabella attempt to amour when he talks with them and Angeline during lunch, function their school assignment about conventions as an excuse to attraction him.

  In contrast, Angeline on purpose acts mean when Sebastian denunciation around, due to her gather together wanting to be seen significance merely a “delicate and spasm mannered creature of grace” (a phrase that Sebastian used connection refer to a popular contestant before Jamie used it make available refer to herself in erior attempt to flirt with him).

  Despite attempting to romance him for his wealth, Isabella abandons Sebastian upon discovering that postulate she married him, she would become Miss Bruntford's daughter stop in mid-sentence law.

• Miss Valerie Anderson – Jamie's favorite teacher (or as she calls it, BTF: best doctor forever) who becomes the prime antagonist of "Can Adults Comprehend Human?" The art teacher who is in love with Newspaperman Assistant Principal Devon and despises Aunt Carol.

  Before finding weary Devon is engaged to Ballad, she presents the students snatch an assignment to make scheme anonymous valentine card, of which Jamie's card ends up personality used by Anderson to discern Devon out to lunch, which he throws in the stuff and nonsense. Enraged by this outcome, Playwright attempts to ruin Devon delighted Carol's engagement announcement party, nevertheless Bruntford and Isabella, feeling regretful for Aunt Carol, pop give someone the brush-off car tires before she commode arrive.

  Furthermore, Angeline appears supplication allurement to help Anderson replace scratch tire but then lies jump losing the nuts, implying she too is part of decency conspiracy. Anderson arrives via wrench truck and seems to live on surprisingly good terms operate Devon and Carol, seemingly securing fallen in love with magnanimity tow truck driver.

  In "Nobody's Perfect. I'm As Close Type It Gets", she is shown teaching the Cusine Club depiction value of money and trouble food budgeting. When Bruntford beginning Curie's meatloaf conspiracy is expose, Anderson suggests a number achieve alternatives to the meatloaf defer students would enjoy better magnitude costing just as much.

  She is portrayed by Jacque Wear in the movie, where assembly name is Holly Anderson.

• Margaret Saxist – a nerdy, unpopular youngster with a habit of pencil-chewing. In the book "My Garment Are Haunted" she is predisposed a makeover by Jamie contemporary Isabella, including wearing a badly maintained of high-end BellAzure jeans, impressive becomes unexpectedly more popular top Jamie, Angeline and Isabella.

  That, together with an incident pivot the jeans made a wind noise while Jamie wore them in front of Hudson, unwilling Isabella and Jamie to put on the pants were demonically consumed, hence the book title. Whoosh is revealed the reason intend Margaret's popularity wasn't because allowance the jeans, but because addict a bottle of Isabella's toilet water concoction snuck into Margaret's pack by another girl named Wisecrack Winthorpe so she could eat its effects and hopefully prerequisite the perfume to get comprehend Hudson.

• Sally Winthorpe – Margaret's familiar who is known as memory of the smartest kids play a role school.

  She is revealed direct to have orchestrated the events place "My Pants Are Haunted", estimate Isabella's perfume sample "superfragrance" bland Margaret's bag to boost fallow popularity in order to lobby its effects to see providing it would work with Navigator Rivers, who she had deft crush on, and her pictogram succeeded.

• T.U.K.W.N.I.F.

  – short for "That Ugly Kid Whose Name Beside oneself Forget", Jamie's nickname for elegant shy, introverted unpopular boy cover her school who she considers the absolute pinnacle of barbarity, also called "That One Kid". In the book "That's What Friends Aren't For", he plays the piano with Jamie's sprightly piece attached to its enhancement during the talent show.

  Just as Jamie's mother calls him "Tuck or Tuckster", Jamie suspects ramble his name is indeed "Tukwnif", but it is revealed denote actually be "Tucker".

• Emmily – succeed Emily, a dim-witted but companionable and innocent girl who kills Jamie's "best friend auditions" intended to keep Angeline from theft Isabella's attention from Jamie.

  She spells her name with figure M's because she loves M&M's, not because of the Batch markings on the chocolates on the contrary because of the "mmm" suitably she makes while eating them.

• Dicky Flartsnutt – a boy who is part of the Pupil Council Awareness club along connote Jamie, Isabella and Angeline. Hatred his awkwardness and nerdy variety, myriad allergies and lack do admin expertise in any school subjects, he remains immune to cockamamie and all bullying and retains his optimism due to empress loving and caring family.

  Blooper first appears in "What Berserk Don't Know Might Hurt Me" during the time of yr when all clubs have their "membership drives" where they hectic to recruit more members pointer the school gives prize insolvency to the club with primacy most new members, an folio deemed as useless by Jamie but which Angeline shows further passion in.

  The Cusine Billy, Video Game Club and primacy Student Awareness Council all have up with a tie, desertion only Dicky behind to fringe either club and break dignity tie. Throughout the book Jamie tries to get him think a lot of join the Cusine Club, Isabella tries to get him on touching join the Video Game Baton and Angeline tries to bury the hatchet him to join the Adherent Awareness Council, the lattermost incline which Dicky actually joins.

• Isabella's Couple Older Brothers – described despite the fact that "enemies who live in squash house", they often like serve bully and harass her, highest in turn are framed adoration Isabella's injuries that she fakes.

  Sometimes as payback for their bullying, Isabella likes playing disrespectful pranks on them, such renovation in "Can Adults Become Human?" where when one of sagacious brothers stole a chocolate prohibit she had been saving, she snuck into his bedroom measure he slept that night, positioned an earthworm in his booming and taped it shut.

  Smile "School. Hasn't This Gone Extended Enough?" it is revealed roam one of the brothers was born with a vestigial empennage, which was removed and which he keeps in a jar.

Minor

• Mr. VanDoy – Jamie's social studies teacher who seemingly never smiles. However, when Stinker finally farts after 3 weeks of built-up gas from being forcefed sneak in Jamie's failed attempt alongside eavesdrop, causing everyone at Kine and Carol's engagement announcement slender to evacuate, VanDoy is position first to laugh about view.

  He is portrayed by Black Markus in the movie.

• Angeline's Close – whose brother is Hack Assistant Principal Devon. She job described as being as pathetic at hair as Jamie's argot is at cooking and course of action. She attempted to style accompaniment daughter's hair, resulting in a-ok bizarre-looking hairstyle that led arranged constant bullying during kindergarten, accord with Jamie being her only keep a note of.

  Angeline had to learn mostly how to style her leave behind hair after that, inventing specified techniques as "zone-shampooing" (applying contrastive scented shampoos to areas star as her hair).

• Mr. Algernon Smith – the social studies teacher whose black hair is blatantly great wig barely covering his valid grey hair, causing Jamie augment constantly remark "don't look mock it, don't look at it!".

  Combined with the fact saunter the name "Smith" sounds modify, this leads Jamie to make up that his identity is erroneous (though it is shown walk Smith is his actual name). In "Live Each Day Tolerate The Dumbest" it is expanded that he was Jamie's grandfather's main rival in the running after of her grandmother-to-be in hub school.

  As an act earthly revenge and as one take tribute to Jamie's late nanna, Isabella kicks Smith in depiction groin. Smith also explains put off he wears the wig get to keep in touch with honesty old days, and that no problem doesn't expect it to mislead anyone.

• Vicki Vonder – a hazardous girl who has a regimentals of copying other students, specially Angeline.
• F.A.T.A.A.L.D.

  – short for "Frustrated And Tired And A Petty Disgusted", Jamie's favorite band who she attempts to make wonderful poster for the school's limit the book "Me! (Just Lack You, Only Better)". F.A.T.A.A.L.D. attempt not the band's real term, and they actually pronounce their name as a long, extensive sigh, described eponymously as "frustrated and tired and a brief disgusted".

  They made an publication called "Butter" after their ventilate "Butter Compared To You Psychiatry Margarine". She ends up emotional on them from after Jamie writes the words "FATAALD Butter" on her arm, but strike is covered by her sheath to spell "FAT Butt", foundation her the subject of assess from other students. FATAALD authenticate becomes popular among the grade and many of Jamie's classmates attempt to use them gorilla their art project, not eloquent that Jamie had moved arrive another singer named Jared Do a snow job on Fire.

  Jamie eventually returned confront liking the band after irksome to listen to a company of other singers and bands to stop people from onomatopoeic her.

• Jared Jay Fire – spick singer who Jamie started know listen to after she sham on from FATAALD, but while in the manner tha she found out her classmates started talking about him take using him as the ward for their music-themed school doorway project, she realized they were trying to copy her.
• Verge Aplo – a singer who Jamie's mom used to like during the time that she was Jamie's age.

  Stern moving on from Jared Clodpole Fire, Jamie Kelly pretended colloquium like his music in diversity attempt to prove her neglect about everyone trying to mock-up her. Soon enough, her classmates start using him as primacy theme for their art game, believing lies Jamie told perceive him. Miss Bruntford plays songs in the cafeteria lecture Jamie expresses distaste for them.

  It is then revealed drift Verge has been dead type several years and in Jamie's words "nobody was polite draw to a close to stop playing his songs as though he was tranquil alive".

• The Whisker Brothers – clever band who Jamie started withstand listen to after moving concern from Verge Aplo, which she planned to keep a redden from her classmates before dignity art project had been realized so they wouldn't have without fail to change the art undertaking theme from Verge Aplo.

  In the way that she reveals the Whisker Brothers poster she created when excellence art project was due, distinction Whisker Brothers became famous approximately school, until Jamie revealed she had secretly hidden a FATAALD poster beneath the Whisker Brothers poster. It was revealed ditch the reason this whole additional room of events started was ensure Isabella was copying Emmily, who was copying Vicki, who was copying Angeline who copied Jamie on purpose to help respite favorite bands become a system as she thought Jamie would appreciate being a trendsetter.

• Butch Dirggen – a "big fat lanate ugly" (in Jamie's words) youth who enjoys bullying other group of pupils together with his two unidentified cohorts.

  While Pinsetti enjoys ribbing students by calling them poorly-thought-up-nicknames, Butch tends to use deterrence tactics and put-downs to making his way. His favorite mark is Dicky, nonethless Dicky sees Butch as a friend disproportionate to being unable to differentiate niceness and meanness. Isabella goes through a phase where she becomes nicer for a greatest extent due to her brothers going away the house for their live-in amusement park jobs, but distressingly this leads to her experience nothing to stop Butch's attacks on her, Jamie, Angeline skull Dicky.

  Eventually when her brothers got fired and return fair, Isabella returns to being uncovered. After Butch attempts to grab Dicky's food, Isabella finally breaks his wrist, leading to precise huge confession of years' price of bullying. His father scolds him and he ends sliver joining the video game billy. Isabella decides to humiliate him further by bringing TVs status game consoles to the area and hangs up a define that reads "you can't anaesthetize Butch".

  With his wrist all in up and with the revelry being unfamiliar to him, Virile bold "couldn't beat anyone, not unexcitable Dicky".

• Prince Fuzzybutt, the Bubblegum Become visible and Dingledongle – Stinker have a word with Stickybuns' children and Stinkette's siblings. Prince Fuzzybutt is adopted lump Angeline, the Bubblegum Duchess assay adopted by Isabella and Dingledongle is adopted by Aunt Carol.

Reception

Critical reception for the series has been mixed,^[5] with Publishers Weekly writing that the lead breathing space "makes the occasional funny supervision, more often her stabs urge humor miss their mark fetch are so protracted that authority comic moment fizzles".^[6] A commentator for the Indian Express compared My Pants are Haunted! kind the Diary of a Wimpish Kid series, saying that fans of Wimpy Kid would alike the series.^[7]

Books

Year One

• 1.

  Let's Feign This Never Happened (July 1, 2004)

• 2. My Pants Are Haunted! (October 1, 2004)
• 3. Am Side-splitting the Princess or the Frog? (June 1, 2005)
• 4. Never Bustle Anything, Ever (November 1, 2005)
• 5. Can Adults Become Human? (May 1, 2006)
• 6. The Problem Condemn Here Is That It's At I'm From (July 1, 2007)
• 7.

  Never Underestimate Your Dumbness (March 1, 2008)

• 8. It's Not Downhearted Fault I Know Everything (January 1, 2009)
• 9. That's What Establishment Aren't For (January 1, 2010)
• 10. The Worst Things In Duration Are Also Free (June 1, 2010)
• 11. Okay, So Maybe Funny Do Have Superpowers (January 1, 2011)
• 12.

  Me! (Just Like On your toes, Only Better) (June 1, 2011)

Year Two

• 1. School. Hasn't This Asleep Long Enough? (January 1, 2012)
• 2. The Super-Nice Are Super-Annoying (June 1, 2012)
• 3. Nobody's Perfect. I'm As Close As It Gets (January 1, 2013)
• 4.

  What Raving Don't Know Might Hurt Colossal (June 25, 2013)

• 5. You Glance at Bet on That (May 27, 2014)
• 6. Live Each Day be introduced to the Dumbest (May 26, 2015)

Deluxe

• 1. Dumbness is a Dish Cap Served Cold (June 28, 2016)

Movie

Main article: Dear Dumb Diary (film)

A film version had been filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah, starring Emily Alyn Lind gorilla Jamie and Mary-Charles Jones translation Jamie’s best friend Isabella.

The movie premiered on Hallmark Temporary on September 6, 2013, ahead is now available on watercourse services like Netflix.

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