Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You

By Barthe DeClements

Subjects: Teacher-student relationships, fiction, Reading, fiction, Elementary schools, Girl baseball players, Large type books, Dyslexia, fiction, Schools, fiction, kid's lit, Fiction, dyslexia, Children's fiction, Students, fiction, Special education, Flunking, School stories, grade school, Dyslexic children, Juvenile fiction, Sixth-graders, Eleven-year-old girls, Reading, Dyslexia, Schools, Teacher-student relationships

Description: 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.