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Barthe Faith DeClements (born October 8, ) is an American author of children's and young adult books.!
Helen fears that lack of improvement in her reading may leave her stuck in the sixth grade forever, until a good teacher recognizes her reading problem.
But what will it take to get herself out of trouble when she’s been in it so long?
Barthe DeClements introduced Elsie Edwards as the class fatty-pariah in Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade, and followed her development into an insecure high schooler in How Do I Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues?
and her hard-won blossoming into a self-confident young woman in Seventeen and In-Between; by that point Elsie had become one of my all-time favorite YA heroines.
The Plot: Elsie only makes a brief appearance in this story (which was actually published after Ninth Grade Blues) but DeClements gives us another young heroine struggling to define herself beyond a big problem.
Helen Nicholas has earned the nickname of “Bad Helen” by the time she starts 6th grade with her BFF Louise, and familiar characters such as Jack Hanson, Diane Gates, Jenny Sawyer, and Sharon Hinkler (still up in everybody’s business, not yet having joined a cult).
Rambunctious and prank-obsessed, Helen has a