Let's Pretend This Never Happened (Dear Dumb Diary, No. 1)

Let's Pretend This Never Happened (Dear Dumb Diary, No. 1)

By Jim Benton

38 ratings 64 reviews 97 followers
Book 1 of 12 in the  Dear Dumb Diary Series
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 7Grades 10 - 9X6.18094
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!
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN-13: 9780545010306
ISBN-10: 0545010306
Published on 5/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 128

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it is a very cool series i am on book 10 right now the books are very short though

The name of this book is Dear Dumb Diary. The author is Jim Benton. The book Dear Dumb Diary is a very good book. The setting is at her school. The time and period is modern time period. The protagonist, Jamie Kelly, she is nice and funny. The antagonist, Angelina, she is pretty and she has pretty blonde hair. There were two conflicts. Jamie likes this kid and Angelina stole him. The other confit is she is probably going to get in F because her dog ripped up her project. Both conflicts were solved the same way. I do not want to give it away so all I will say is Angelina helped. If you are in 6th of 7th grade this is a good book for you. I liked this because it was a funny book and relates to my grade. This book is about Jamie Kelly and her dairy. Jamie was telling us in her diary that her mom is not a very good cook and if she doesn't eat. Her mom gives her a big speech on the hungry kids would love to have this food. Jamie said that she always eats it so she doesn't get that speech that much. When she was walking into class she knew she was going to be first. At the end, it got a lot better and now Jamie and Angelina are good because Jamie did not have a project. When she got called up Angelina knew that she did not have a project . Angelina said they worked on the project together and Angelina wanted to help Jamie because Jamie took the blame when Angelina throw the meat loaf. I would recommend this book to a 6th or 7th grader because this could really happen in middle school.

This book is cool. I can really tell that she really hates angeline

I love this series!!! It is very funny and full of weird drawings! Isabella is my personal favorite person. And the way Jamie describes Angeline is hilarious! This book is a HIT!!!!! Read if you want some dorky adventure in your life Love, Donbenito

I love this series!!! It is very funny and full of weird drawings

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I love all the dear dumb diary series and the movie!

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a AWESOME book! I love it! This book is the funniest book EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought it was so funny! Great book to read although I thought it was a little easy for me. One thing though... DONT WATCH THE MOVIE!!! I watched the movie on netflix and it ruined it into some kind of weird musical! Otherwise it was great.

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