By Colorado Kids Advisory Board member Erin Walters

Title: Dear Dumb Diary, Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic
Number of Pages: 95

Do you keep a diary? Well if you do, you will love this journal, of a girl with an over active imagination, named Jamie Kelly. At first, she hopes that no one will find out about her nickname "Peach Girl". Then she found out that her arch enemy Angeline heard the disturbing nickname.

Then, her cousin comes along and causes more destruction between Jamie and her enemy Angeline. The lunch lady's head is like a big plate of meatloaf. Her friend Isabella gets lizard lips and puts jumbo lip gloss on, that is actually roll-on deodorant. Jamie gets her hair dyed and ends up very unhappy about it.

The end was a shocker to me, her cousin helps her out, but you'll have to read the book to find out what happens between Jamie and Angeline.

If you like humorous books, comical pictures, or a quick read I think you would enjoy this book. (February, 2005)