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Summary: I love this book
Review: As a former special education student who endured my own share of public school abuses (from teachers and students alike) I was initially excited about this book during my own elementary school. That was, until I actually read through the patronizing story. 'Bad Helen' recieved her nickname because she repeatedly acts up in class due to frustration with a learning disability. Her school knows that she is elgible for services but for the sake of the story, she is in the 'regular' classroom with a teacher who has made it clear that she does not like Helen for who she is. Having special education students in the regular classroom only works if the teacher is not insulting the student. Even today, I am amazed by the number and severity of plot holes. Nobody (including the parents) seems alarmed that Helen is not recieving the help she is entitled to get under state/federal special education laws. This sends/reinforces historical stereotypes that special education (instead of the discrimination people using it experience) is bad and undesirable. Now as then, this book may be the only 'public' information on special education that some students recieve---especially about themselves. Ms. Declements could have performed a tremendous public service for her readers (ala Henry Winkler's Hank Zipster) but instead exploits fear of being different. Furthermore, naive parents who are afraid of their children's diagnosis also turn to juvenile literature to reasure the whole family of an uncertain future. This book harms the very populations it could be trying to obtain primary readership from.
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Summary: I love this book
Review: I had read this book 10 years ago when I was in the 6th grade and it was definitely one of my favourites. It was funny reading about the pranks Helen played on Mrs. Lobb, but the teacher was really unfair towards her. Overall, the book was well written descriptively and made me feel as though I was watching a movie at the same time. There is nothing wrong with seeking help with reading, but it is also very common for kids to be cruel towards someone who's different, which is unfair. This book showed that Helen may have had a learning disability, but shows talent in other areas such as math, art, music and sports and is a very bright and articulate individual. I also enjoyed reading about her spending time with her friends at birthday parties and what a fun Christmas she had.
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Summary: This book was amazing!
Review: 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.
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Summary: Terrible Book Don't Read!
Review: 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.
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Summary: Yeah it sure is!
Review: Oh how frustrating it can be when you first enter 6th grade! I highly reccomend this book's sequel, "Special Education Kills Even More" which is about poor Helen's trials and tribulations in Special Ed class, where she becomes a jaded young adult, frustrated at the unability of the teacher to meet her needs and the enormous class size. She escapes to Hollywood to become a star. The title of that sequel is "Helen Hunts for Hollywood" and is highly reccomended for troubled young adults seeking fame.
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Summary: A good and interesting book
Review: 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.
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Summary: A Wonderful Book!
Review: The book Sixth Grade can Really kill you is one of the best books i have read this year. It starts with a girl named Helen she is a girl who has trouble reading and writing. the worst thing that she thinks that has happened to her this year is that she does not get the teacher that she wants she got Mrs.lobb and she is not all she is cracked up to be but, helen has her crush in her class his name is Jimmy. None of her friends are in her class. But, lives up to her nickname "Bad Helen" by doing stuff to Mrs.Lobb. Her mom is really on her back about getting good grades but, is really nice about it. Helen also has a birthday coming up and has a skating party. Well that is all i am going to tell you now you will have to read the book.
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Summary: Great Book Thrilling Adventure
Review: The book Sixth Grade can Really kill you is one of the best books i have read this year. It starts with a girl named Helen she is a girl who has trouble reading and writing. the worst thing that she thinks that has happened to her this year is that she does not get the teacher that she wants she got Mrs.lobb and she is not all she is cracked up to be but, helen has her crush in her class his name is Jimmy. None of her friends are in her class. But, lives up to her nickname "Bad Helen" by doing stuff to Mrs.Lobb. Her mom is really on her back about getting good grades but, is really nice about it. Helen also has a birthday coming up and has a skating party. Well that is all i am going to tell you now you will have to read the book.
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Summary: Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
Review: This is a wonderful book! I am a Special Education Class Instructional Aide. I am currently reading this book with my students and they love it! Since my students are in a Resource Class like Helen, they can really relate. They enjoy laughing at the situations that Helen gets herself into and they can understand with how she feels. An excellent book to read with students, and at my school it just happens to also be an AR book, so not only do the students enjoy the book, but they can take AR test to earn points.
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Summary: Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
Review: This is a wonderful book! I am a Special Education Class Instructional Aide. I am currently reading this book with my students and they love it! Since my students are in a Resource Class like Helen, they can really relate. They enjoy laughing at the situations that Helen gets herself into and they can understand with how she feels. An excellent book to read with students, and at my school it just happens to also be an AR book, so not only do the students enjoy the book, but they can take AR test to earn points.
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