Barthe DeClements wrote middle-grade and young adult fiction about school, family change, friendship and the humiliations that loom large in childhood. Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade follows a group of girls whose treatment of an overweight new classmate gradually changes as they learn more about her home life and their own cruelty. Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You centres on a girl struggling academically and behaviourally at school, while How Do You Lose Those Ninth-Grade Blues? moves into early adolescence and the pressures of secondary school. DeClements writes in a direct, accessible style, with plots built from recognisable classroom conflicts rather than fantasy or adventure. DeClements is strongest as a writer of realistic school stories in which bullying, learning difficulties and changing friendships are worked out through classrooms, lunch tables and family arguments rather than extraordinary adventures. Read more Less
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