Dumbness Is a Dish Best Served Cold

Benton, Jim

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Just the Series: Dear Dumb Diary: Deluxe

Series and Publisher: Dear Dumb Diary: Deluxe

Annotation: Jamie and her friends Angeline and Isabella are studying "personal finance" in school, so they decide to put their heads together and come up with a way to earn serious money by selling food. The only trouble is, none of them know anything about cooking.

Genre: [Humorous fiction]

Reviews: 0

Catalog Number: #5809235

Format: Library Binding

Common Core/STEAM: Common Core

Publisher: Scholastic Book Service

Edition Date: 2016 Release Date: 06/28/16

Pages: 197 pages

ISBN: 0-545-93228-9

ISBN 13: 978-0-545-93228-8

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2016016950

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Subject Heading:
Money-making projects for children. Juvenile fiction.
Finance, Personal. Juvenile fiction.
Cooking. Juvenile fiction.
Best friends. Juvenile fiction.
Families. Juvenile fiction.
Moneymaking projects. Fiction.
Finance, Personal. Fiction.
Cooking. Fiction.
Best friends. Fiction.
Family life. Fiction.
Friendship. Fiction.

Language: English

Word Count: 22,082

Reading Level: 5.2

Interest Level: 4-7

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.2 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 183134 / grade: Middle Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:5.5 / points:6.0 / quiz:Q69152

Lexile: 850L

Jamie Kelly is back and dumber than ever in this super-deluxe four-color Dear Dumb Diary special edition!

Life at Mackerel Middle School is as dumb as ever -- but Jamie Kelly may have finally found the key to fame, fortune, and fabulousness. Together with Isabella and Angeline, she's come up with a moneymaking idea, and it has to do with food. Everyone likes food! They're going to be rich!The only problem? They have to come up with something that people actually want to eat.Jamie has some sophisticated thoughts on food, like, "She was manipulating us like dough. Like the sweet, delicious dough that we are. And she was baking us into the type of delicious cookies you can only get from dough like us. And she was putting sprinkles of us on top of us, and -- forget it. I'm hungry. I want some cookies." This is sure to go well.

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