title: Barthe DeClements
text: # Barthe DeClements
  
  Barthe Faith DeClements (born October 8, 1920) is an American author of children's and young adult books.
  
  Her first novel, 1981's Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade, won young reader awards from California, Georgia, and Ohio.
  
  Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You won the 1988 Young Readers Choice Award and the 1989 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book (Ohio).
  
  