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Barthe DeClements

Barthe DeClements

American author

Barthe Faith DeClements[1] (born October 8, 1920)[2] is an American 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. [1]
    Hedblad, Alan (2002). Something about the Author. Gale. pp. 50–51. ISBN 9780787647193. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  2. [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. [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. [4]
    Walters, Jim (2005). 50 Book Report Ideas. Teacher Created Resources. p. 110. ISBN 9781420639483. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  5. [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. [6]
    "Past Nominees & Winners – Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award". bcbookaward.info. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  7. [7]
    PNLA Quarterly. Pacific Northwest Library Association. 1988. p. 17. Retrieved 30 November 2017.



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