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Elsie was gross. Her eyes were squished above cheek bubbles of fat. Her chin rippled down her neck. She really didn’t have a waist except where her stomach bulged out below her chest. Her legs looked...

Barthe DeClements

Elsie was gross. Her eyes were squished above cheek bubbles of fat. Her chin rippled down her neck. She really didn’t have a waist except where her stomach bulged out below her chest. Her legs looked...

I had just started my new paragraph when the classroom door opened and a woman and a fat blond girl walked in. Sharon sits behind me and I heard her say, Ugh. Diane sits beside me and she whispered, I...

Barthe DeClements

I had just started my new paragraph when the classroom door opened and a woman and a fat blond girl walked in. Sharon sits behind me and I heard her say, Ugh. Diane sits beside me and she whispered, I...

About Author
Barthe Faith DeClements (born October 8, 1920) is an American author of children's and young adult books.
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 and the 1989 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book (Ohio).

My mother says I should be nice to everyone. Either school was different when she was young or she just doesn’t remember.

Barthe DeClements

My mother says I should be nice to everyone. Either school was different when she was young or she just doesn’t remember.

Money. Halfway through that fifth grade year there was no money out on anyone’s desk.

Barthe DeClements

Money. Halfway through that fifth grade year there was no money out on anyone’s desk.