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Franny K. Stein is back with another laugh-out-loud experimental adventure in the ninth book in the Mad Scientist series from Jim Benton, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of the Dear Dumb Diary and It’s Happy Bunny series. Franny K. Stein isn’t a good baker. But when she sees that the fundraisers for the art and music departments at her school aren’t making enough money, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Using her genius mind and kitchen, which is really just another type of laboratory, she sets out to create The Most Delicious Muffin On Earth! Sales, of course, go through the roof. But bad things can happen when people become exposed to the best thing they’ve ever tasted. They can become...overenthusiastic.

Everyone's favorite blue furball returns in his fourth laugh-out-loud collection from bestselling author Jim Benton! Catwad and Blurmp return with an all-new group of hilarious comic stories and a few bonus back-of-book activities! This snarky blue furball (and his adorably innocent friend) have a funny take on just about everything. It's a laugh-out-loud romp not to be missed, even if Catwad claims otherwise.

From creating monsters to invisibility formulas to time travel, there is no obstacle that Franny can't conquer. Now you can catch up on her early experiments and see what it takes to become a mad scientist!

Fans of Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy will fall head over heels for Franny K. Stein, who is back with another laugh-out-loud experimental adventure in the tenth book in the Mad Scientist series. Franny K. Stein has had quite enough of her feelings getting in the way. So she physically removes them with the help of one of her machines. But it turns out that not having feelings can make things even worse, especially when you’ve accidentally released a virus that’s turning everybody into toads. Good thing she has the help of her grandma, Granny Fran, and her Sense of Duty to help her shake the apathy.

It's an eventful month for Jamie Kelly. Stinker and Stickybuns' litter of puppies has arrived -- which makes Jamie and her nemesis Angeline in-laws by dog. Ugh. Jamie's class at Mackerel Middle School is doing a unit on journal- writing, and someone's diary falls into the wrong hands. But worst of all, Angeline and Isabella are becoming . . . friends. Dear Dumb Diary, It's not my fault I know everything. Okay, I don't know where Timbuktu is, but I refuse to know that. Even if somebody told me, I would flush my brain like a thought- potty and wave goodbye to Timbuktu as it swirled down my brain hole. I know everything that I WANT to know.

It's Sixth time's the charm! Catwad and Blurmp venture out of the living room and into the world in this hilarious graphic novel! Attending a comic convention, taking a swim deep inside a toilet bowl, gazing into the future with Blurmp’s crystal ball, shredding on guitar, and horseback riding are just a few adventures in this laugh-out-loud collection. It’s the zaniest Catwad yet!

Jamie Kelly chronicles her second year of middle school in her diary, where she deals with new teachers, confronts Angelina and the other pretty people in school, and struggles in math class.

The wedding Dear Dumb Diary readers have been anxiously anticipating is about to become a reality: Jamie's aunt and Angeline's uncle joined together until death do they part -- or until the divorce Jamie has been feverishly wishing for since they started dating finally happens. Now, three of Jamie's most dreaded nightmares are about to be combined into one unbearable event: 1) Very VERY poofy brown dresses 2) Wedding clogs 3) A lifetime of being related to Angeline, a.k.a. Blondewad Jamie has just one word for this kind of horror: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! PRAISE FOR JIM BENTON AND DEAR DUMB DIARY: What's new, what's cool: 'Dear Dumb Diary.' You'll laugh out loud at what this girl has to say. -- Knight Ridder Tribune This book's witty and satiric sense of humor is sure to resonate with kids and make these books a must-have. -- BIG BLUE DOT Trend Update Told in knee-slapping diary entries...Jim Benton delivers a wonderfully silly series that combines his knack for knowing what kids love to read with fun illustrations. Young audiences will eat up Jamie's diary descriptions...while parents are sure to see their kids beg for more Dumb Diary books. -- The Barnes & Noble Review

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. This follow-up to DDD #5, a New York Times Bestseller, is sure to be full of laughs!

Dear Dumb Diary, So now I'm friends with Angeline. This is 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 could grow up not knowing both their parents --- and I couldn't live with myself for doing something like that to a puppy.