New Releases by JIM BENTON

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.

Jamie Kelly, a student at Mackerel Middle School, shares her angst in her diary over her aunt''s upcoming wedding in which she is a bridesmaid, the school dance, and a taco rendezvous with the cutest boy in school.

If you''re looking for love, chances are It''s Happy Bunny Love and Revenge Voodoo Kit is ready to offer romantic guidance and laughs in the form of a three-inch plush, two-sided, It''s Happy Bunny voodoo doll, complete with four pushpins and a 32-page love- and revenge-themed booklet.Author''s web site: www.jimbenton.com © Jim Benton

Franny K. Stein fans are urged to watch out for creepy-crawly creative crafts, alarming activities, and ridiculous riddles, in this fun activity book that comes with a page of warped window clings. Illustrations. Consumable.

Filled with activities, crafts, puzzles, and games that test the boundaries of reality, this fun book also comes with a page of twisted tattoos. Illustrations. Consumable.

It''s Happy Bunny presents the ideal make-your-own valentine book for those who are sick of the sickeningly sweet. With this cool new valentine book, youngsters can tear out the perforated cards, decorate them with stickers, and send them off to that special someone. Full color. Consumable.

"Jim Benton''s tales from Mackerel Middle School."

Jamie Kelly shares with her diary her excitement about the fact that students from Wodehouse Middle School will be going to Mackerel Middle School temporarily.

Franny''s faithful lab assistant, Igor, has swallowed a doomsday device that is ready to go off at any moment! For any regular scientist, there is only one way to get the device out -- um...make that two ways. But Franny K. Stein is no ordinary scientist, so she concocts her own way to get the device back and save her friend. With her miniaturization machine, Franny shrinks herself to the size of a pin and goes on a field trip like no other...through the body of a ticking time-dog! Fasten your seatbelts, it''s going to be a bumpy ride!

Jamie go school. School full savages. Savages be mean Jamie. Jamie teach hippo bite Angeline. Good hippo.

Like a light shining through the darkness comes a particularly snarky guide that can truly illuminate the differences between right and wrong, good and evil, just and unjust, hot and gross--all handled the It''s Happy Bunny way. Full color.

Dear Dumb Diary.

Jamie is crushing on Hudson. Someone too-gross-to-be- named is crushing on Jamie. And Hudson is crushing on . . . Princess Turd of Turdsylvania (a.k.a. The Prettiest Girl in the World). Middle school may be grim, but it''s no fairy tale. And crazy doesn''t even begin to cover it.

It''s time...for a change!

"Beauty is only skin deep, but hate goes all the way to the bone." -- back cover.

With quips and sarcasm, Happy Bunny dispenses advice on life''s endeavors.

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. There''s nothing better in the world than being a mad scientist-at least according to Franny. And she''s absolutely convinced that, if given the opportunity to be one, every kid in her class would feel the same way. So she''s making it her mission to help her classmates discover their own inner mad scientists. All Franny needs for her latest experiment is a few volunteers, a half-completed two-headed robot, and an invisibility potion. Only this experiment just might prove to be Franny''s most difficult. What do you do when your classmates don''t know anything about mad science, and there''s a doubly dumb robot running amok to prove it? In a celebrated new series that the Bulletin of the Center for Children''s Books heralded as having the "glib, kid-appealing insouciance of Captain Underpants with an intelligence all its own," Jim Benton provides emergent readers with a chapter book that is "both smart and snork-worthy."

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.

Two heads...Are dumber than one.

LESS MUSH... MORE CRUSH!

Sneak a peek into the diary of Jamie Kelly, who promises everything she writes is true ... or at least as true as needs be.

Jamie Kelly shares with her diary the story of her haunted jeans and their role in the fluctuating levels of popularity at Mackerel Middle School.

SUGAR AND SPICE? NO WAY!