Barthe Faith DeClements
(born October 8, 1920)
is an American author of
children's and
young adult books
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* Offspring, the product of reproduction of a new organism produced by one or more parents
* Youth, the time of life when one is young, often meaning the time between childhood and adulthood
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Her first novel, 1981's ''Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade'', won young reader awards from California, Georgia, and Ohio.
''Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You'' won the 1988
Young Readers Choice Award
The Young Reader's Choice Award is an award program of the Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) which was inaugurated in 1940 by Harry Hartman, a well-known Seattle based bookseller. It is the oldest "children's choice" award in the U.S. an ...
and the 1989 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book (Ohio).
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
1920 births
Living people
American children's writers
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