Jim Benton
1) It's me
Author
Series
Catwad volume 1
Language
English
Description
Meet Catwad. He's blue, he's a bit of a grouch, and his best friend is a happy-go-lucky cat named Blurmp who can see the bright side of anything. From pizza and computers to love and happiness, this burball has a funny take on just about everything, and he's not afraid to share it. It's an all-new, laugh-out-loud series that will make even the grumpiest of grumblers smile!
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
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Description
Franny K. Stein is a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky and creepy, but when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments with fitting in--which works until a monster erupts from the trashcan.
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at school, mad scientist Franny K. Stein experiments with time in order to return to the past and give herself a more dignified name.
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
With so much on her plate, like creating monsters out of meat by-products and dealing with overgrown babies, mad scientist Fran decides that the only way to get all her tasks done is to create Franbots, steel-plated duplicates of herself with minds of their own.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Kelly writes in her diary about her "flawless" friend, Angeline, her favorite band, and all the trials and tribulations of middle school.
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2004].
Language
English
Description
When Franny Stein, self-styled mad scientist, creates a robot to show her school friends the joys of science, she ends up learning something from them instead.
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Frannie tries to prevent chaos when her new lab assistant, Igor, a dog of many breeds, accidentally lets loose a giant, fifty-foot, arrow-shooting cupid.
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When her lab assistant, Igor the dog, swallows a doomsday device with a ticking clock, Franny K. Stein shrinks herself down in a miniature machine and enters the body of her beloved pooch to track down the device and stop it from going off.
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Determined to be elected class president, mad scientist Frannie K. Stein uses her Atomic Combiner to create a suit that makes her seem to be whatever a voter wants her to be, but the suit has plans of its own.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jamie Kelly writes in her diary about her social studies teacher, Mr. VanDoy, the budding relationship between her Aunt Carol and Assistant Principal Devon, and the real story behind Isabella's detention.
11) Bad hair day
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Franny tries to follow her mother's suggestion to change her appearance, but by turning hair styling into a science experiment she creates some very greedy pigtails that terrorize the town.
Author
Series
Victor Shmud total expert volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Patti asks for help with her large cello, Victor and Dumpylumps spring into action. Meanwhile, Victor needs to save the world from the zombie apocalypse.
Author
Series
Victor Shmud total expert volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Victor, total expert at everything, finds himself at the center of an intergalactic conflict, he'll need the help of his trusty sidekick Dumpylumps the duck, and his best friend Patti, to find his way out.
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 9
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Concerned that the fundraisers for the school art and music departments are not doing well, Franny K. Stein creates in her laboratory/kitchen an irresistible muffin recipe.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Jamie Kelly writes in her diary about her crush on Mr. Prince, the new student teacher at Mackerel Middle School, and she feels certain that he is the secret admirer who is sending her love poems.
Author
Series
Fann Club volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Batman fan Ernest Fann takes on the secret persona Gerbilwing and sets up a crime fighting unit with his friends and dog, but things become a little too real when Ernest and his friends visit a bank in the middle of a robbery.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
As their school gets ready for the annual Fun Fair, Jamie and Isabella agree to compete in the bottle toss game and to terrible consequences for the loser.
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Jamie is upset because she is now automatic friends with her old enemy Angeline, and so she tries to find something that she and her real friend, Isabella, can do together for the school talent show without Angeline.