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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
"Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." —Los Angeles Times
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language.
From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the
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Series
Stink Moody volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Seven-year-old Stink Moody discovers that he can get free samples by writing letters to candy companies and plans a surprise for his best friend's birthday.
5) E-mergency
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
The letter E has fallen and injured herself-- which letters will replace her and how will words be spelled without her?
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Series
Publisher
Bob Books Publications, LLC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rhyming makes reading easier and more fun for kids that are just getting started. When rhyming words are included in a story, they make sounding out (decoding) easier. Kids have reading success sooner and faster, build confidence, and they have fun too. Bob Books Rhyming Words is a great next step after Bob Books Set 1.
8) Wet pet
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Series
Publisher
distributed in the U.S. by Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Humorous illustrations and die-cut pages introduce words of the same family, such as pet, wet, jet, and then combine them in often-improbable phrases, including jet gets wet.
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Language
English
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Description
"Ever wonder what "nonbinary" or "gender nonconforming" really means? Why would someone choose to identify that way? And how the heck do you use "they/them" pronouns for a singular person - isn't it supposed to be plural? This charming and disarming guide promises to unpack all these questions and more, with a fun, visual infographic approach"--
12) No no yes yes
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Explores opposites, showing proper behavior and naughty behavior.
13) Where's baby?
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Papa Fox is looking for Baby Fox, who is just out of his sight ... but not ours! An adorable, interactive read-aloud for fans of Are You My Mother. In this clever introduction to prepositions, a near-sighted Papa is looking for his baby. Is Baby up in the tree? Is Baby under the log? Is Baby around the corner? Where could Baby be? Readers will delight in spotting the little fox on every page as Papa wanders the forest, encountering other animals...
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Written by an expert, The ABCs of Mathematics is a colorfully simple introduction for babies (and grownups!) to a new math concept for every letter of the alphabet, from addition all the way to zero. Each page in this mathematical primer features multiple levels of text so the book grows along with your little mathematician. Read just one line of text per page to start or linger on the longer descriptions as baby's vocabulary expands. This alphabetical...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking." "Professor James Murray, an astonishingly...
Author
Series
Bob books volume set 3
Publisher
Bob Books Publications, LLC
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Consonant blends, endings, and a few sight words advance reading skills and create more complex stories. Stories and pictures to make learning alphabet sounds enjoyable.
17) Love in English
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling blocked after moving from Argentina to New Jersey, a sixteen-year-old poet finds herself torn between a cute American boy in her math class and a Greek student who understands the struggles she is facing in an ESL class.
Ana moved to New Jersey from Argentina for her Junior year of high school. She's a poet and a lover of language-- except that now, she can barely understand what’s going on around her, let alone find the words to express...
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Series
Publisher
Rodale Kids, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Showcasing twenty-six natural-world experiences, this A-Z exploration of our planet reveals what makes the Earth so special and all the important ways we can protect our home from climate change.
Author
Publisher
Button Poetry
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Francisco has created his own words for the things we cannot give name to. I'll Fly Away uses Frrancisco's invented lexicon as the palette to paint an intimate portrait of black life in America- one that praises joy and grace without shying away from the hard truths confronting all of us today.