Barthe DeClements

Barthe Faith DeClements[1] (born October 8, 1920[2]) is an award-winning author of children's and young adult books.[2]

Her first novel, 1981's Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade,[3] won young reader awards from California,[4] Georgia,[5] and Ohio.[6]

Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You won the 1988 Young Readers Choice Award and the 1989 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book (Ohio).[7]

Bibliography
  • Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade (1981)
  • How Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues? (1984)
  • Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You (1985)
  • Seventeen and In-Between (1985)
  • I Never Asked You to Understand Me (1986)
  • No Place for Me (1987)
  • The Fourth Grade Wizards (1988)
  • Double Trouble (1988)
  • Five-Finger Discount (1989)
  • Wake Me at Midnight (1991)
  • The Bite of the Gold Bug: A Story of the Alaskan Gold Rush (1992)
  • The Pickle Song (1993)
  • Tough Loser (1994)
  • Liar, Liar (1998)

References
  1. Hedblad, Alan (2002). Something about the Author. Gale. pp. 50–51. ISBN 9780787647193. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  2. Cullinan, Bernice E.; Person, Diane Goetz (2005). The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. A&C Black. p. 224. ISBN 9780826417787. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  3. "Favourite-book list sure to draw interest". Newspapers.com. The Times Herald (Port Huron, Michigan). June 15, 1984. p. 4. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  4. Walters, Jim (2005). 50 Book Report Ideas. Teacher Created Resources. p. 110. ISBN 9781420639483. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  5. Children's and Youth Services Staff Handbook (PDF). Georgia Public Library Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  6. "Past Nominees & Winners – Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award". bcbookaward.info. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  7. PNLA Quarterly. Pacific Northwest Library Association. 1988. p. 17. Retrieved 30 November 2017.



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