Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590404628
• ISBN-13: 978-0590404624
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,815,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Depiction of Reality, July 31, 2004

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J. F. Wilfong (Gastonia, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You (An Apple Paperback) (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:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You, September 9, 2000

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Leslie G. Bendt (St. Augustine, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You (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:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good and interesting book, March 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You (An Apple Paperback) (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.