Books with author Barthe DeClements

A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.

Helen fears that lack of improvement in her reading may leave her stuck in the sixth grade forever, until a good teacher recognizes her reading problem.

After her mother dies, Marianne becomes a daydreamer and begins to fall behind in her schoolwork.

A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.

Helen fears that lack of improvement in her reading may leave her stuck in the sixth grade forever, until a good teacher recognizes her reading problem.

Though no longer a fat girl, Elsie, now fifteen, still has trouble believing anyone could love her and that old fear threatens her relationship with her boyfriend.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Initially repelled by an overweight new student who has serious home problems, the fifth-grade class finally learns to accept her.

At seventeen, Elsie Edwards, once the fat girl of fifth grade, later slender but insecure in ninth grade, now has boyfriend problems that once would have seemed too good to be true.

Though no longer a fat girl, Elsie, now fifteen, still has trouble believing anyone could love her and that old fear threatens her relationship with her boyfriend.

Copper Jones is shuttled back and forth between her relatives while her mother is drying out in a rehabilitation center; but when she is sent to live with her Aunt Maggie, who is a witch, she learns that even seventh graders have some power.

Though no longer a fat girl, Elsie, now fifteen, still has trouble believing anyone could love her and that old fear threatens her relationship with her boyfriend.

How Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues?