(1985) 9781413148503
This book with the attention grabbing title has wonderful qualities as well as aspects that had they been addressed in greater depth would have resulted in a book closer to excellent. The matters not discussed sufficiently include the over mischievous behavior of the main character, Helen Nichols. However once the obstacles that our main character faces, readers perhaps will understand the frustrations that may account for Helen’s misbehavior at times.
Helen Nichols is excellent in her mathematics classes, athletic endeavors as well in her music activities. What plagues Helen is a condition that has plagued far too many members of our world for too long but which has fortunately has been begun to be addressed by educators with far better skill in the past few years. We, however, must continue with greater vigilance to identify and assist sufferers of the condition which causes Helen so must unnecessary physical discomfort and academic frustrations.
Helen Nichols, our very normal and well liked sixth grader, is quite convinced that she will not make it to seventh grade because of the academic failures that constantly befall her in one area of her studies. Helen’s mother means well, absolutely loves her daughter and works very hard with Helen to overcome the school obstacles that this condition present but the reader will quickly realize that the wrong approach is being employed.
It is now widely acknowledged that sufferers of dyslexia will not benefit from spending hours upon suffering hours of approaching learning to read in the conventional approach and in this story, once Helen is placed in the special reading educational setting, she benefits tremendously and learns to accept herself as being not “dumb” but rather a regular kid.
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