- Mass Market Paperback: 146 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books; Reprint edition (26 Jan 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140371303
- ISBN-13: 978-0140371307
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,820,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Bad" Helen is in trouble. If she can't improve her reading skills, she will be stuck in the sixth grade forever! An ace baseball pitcher and class clown, Helen must now face the fact that reading is not one of her skills. With the help of a sympathetic teacher, Helen decides to brave her classmates' teasing and enter a special education class.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
I'm sure the English professors at Harvard would find something wrong with it, and I'm sure all those Yale graduates would be mad because there is no symbolism or whatnot, but if you want to sit down and read a just plain good, interesting book, this is the one for you! Easy reading and very interesting.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
These books are really good. Why? Because I personally don't like to read, I have already read 4th grade,5th,and 6th grade. They are the best books. And I can't wait to read 7th grade!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A Great Depiction of Reality
31 July 2004
Format:Paperback
I picked this book up at a baby-sitting job expecting it to be a fluffy sixth-grade chapter book. Yet it was much more. DeClements did a great job depicting Helen's challenges with a learning disability as she navigates sixth grade and finally finds some answers in the end. This book is great for teachers like myself because it allows us to see the impact the "little things" we choose to do or not to do can have on a student. It's a great book for students because it depicts Helen's decision-making processes and the ramifications as she chooses to utilize the special ed. room as a resource to help her read.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
9 Sep 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I understand and can sympathize with Helen and her reading challenges. I am glad that she found a constructive solution. I found it frustrating (and socially irresponsible) that Helen was able to launch firecrackers in school, intentionally damage a teachers' clothing and spray paint the school main entrance signage with little repurcussion. In today's schools, those types of actions would warrant serious consequences.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A good and interesting book
27 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You is a interesting book you've got to read. It will really abduct your mind!It starts with a girl named Helen who hardley made it to the sixth grade.(she's not very great at reading,spelling,and social st.)She thinks this year might be better than the others,but when she gets Mrs. Lobb, everything is back like last year.She decides to live up to her nickname "Bad Helen",until she finds out she might flunk,then everything geos wrong.This is a good book, and I acclaim that you should read it.
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