Our Dumb Diary

by Jim Benton

Published 1 January 2007


Best Friends for never.Dear Dumb Diary,So now I’m friends with Angeline. This is an Automatic Friendship and I have to just accept it and make the best of things. See, if I objected then Aunt Carol might divorce Angeline’s uncle, sending both of them tumbling into a deep pit of depression for the rest of their lives, and Angeline could wind up feeling so guilty that she would have to go be locked up in an old dirty insane asylum for years and years, and Stinker’s puppies would grow up not knowing both their parents — and I couldn’t live with myself for doing something like that to a puppy.Sneak a peek inside the diary of Jamie Kelly, who promises that everything she writes is true ... or at least as true as it needs to be.



My Pants Are Haunted

by Jim Benton

Published 1 October 2004

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 & 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...