Tag Archives: Words & Language

How to Spell Like a Champ

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Barrie Trinkle, Carolyn Andrews, Paige Kimble
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Product Description
Be all over “minuscule.” Score big with “curvaceous.” Hit “trireme” out of the park. From the authorities behind the Scripps National Spelling Bee comes a comprehensive illustrated book on the endangered art of spelling.
Written for ages 9 and [...]

CliffsAP English Language and Composition (Cliffs AP)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Barbara V. Swovelin
Publisher: Cliffs Notes

Product Description
Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP English Language and Composition exam
Why CliffsAP Guides?
Go with the name you know and trust
Get the information you need–fast!
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A Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: HarperTrophy

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Ages 8-12. Fans of Harriet the Spy who want to try keeping their own writer’s notebook will appreciate this inspiring handbook. Written in a direct, non-condescending style, writer-to-writer, it offers realistic, experienced advice on how to keep notes and use them to create stories and poems. [...]

Clique Summer Collection #1: Massie (Clique Series)

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Publisher: Poppy

Book Description
Massie gets BE-yoo-tiful: After getting thrown out of horse camp, Massie’s parents force her to take on a summer job. Not one to walk strangers’ dogs or babysit, Massie stumbles upon the perfect position while flipping through Teen Vogue poolside-she’ll be a sales rep for be pretty, the high-end cosmetics [...]

Eric Carle Animal Flash Cards (Eric Carle)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Eric Carle
Publisher: Chronicle Books

Book Description
These beautiful flash cards, featuring artist and author Eric Carle’s familiar animal illustrations, serve as a lovely introduction to the ABCs. Printed on thick, sturdy board, they are perfect for small hands to hold and are equally suited for hanging on the wall in [...]

Baby’s First Words in Chinese (Baby’s First Words)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Living Language
Publisher: Living Language

Book Description
Before they focus in on their native language, babies have an amazing ability to hear and absorb sounds that adults unconsciously block out, like the subtleties of a foreign language. Baby’s First Words in Chinese is an introduction to the sounds of Chinese and [...]

Increase Your Score In 3 Minutes A Day: ACT Reading (Increase Your Score)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Book Description
Accessible, concise guides for quicker, more effective studying
These new additions to the Increase Your Score series present key principles and practical strategies for the ACT Writing Test (new for 2005) and the ACT Reading Test, explained in manageable, bite-size sections ideal for the [...]

Painless Grammar (Painless Series)

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Rebecca Elliott Ph.D.
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series

Book Description
This very approachable text combines instruction in parts of speech and sentence structure with down-to-earth examples, funny illustrations, and examination of some of the more amusing and peculiar words in the English language. A chapter on clear e-mail communication and etiquette [...]

The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers (First Time Books(R))

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
When Papa Bear tells the cubs why they should never talk to strangers, Sister begins to view all strangers as evil until Mama brings some common sense to the problem. “The Bears’ rules for safe conduct among strangers [...]

The Alphabet Book (Bright & Early Board Books(TM))

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: P.D. Eastman
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
From American ants to zebras with zithers, kids will love exploring the alphabet in this classically creative P. D. Eastman alphabet book.

Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit: How the Grinch Stole Christmas in Latin

Rating: (8 reviews)
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Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

Book Description
The Grinch Wins a 4th Place Mercury Award! Seussian Scrouge gets Christmas spirit, in Latin! Quomodo Invidiosulus nomine GRINCHUS Christi natalem Abrogaverit (The Latin version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas) features Dr. Seuss’ original artwork and a translation that echoes the [...]

Christmas Carol (Eyewitness Classics)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd

Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT (Critical Reading Workbook for the Sat)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Sharon Weiner Green, Mitchel Weiner
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series

Book Description
Concentrating on the Critical Reading section of the newly structured SAT college entrance exam, this test-preparation workbook presents tips, questions, answers, and answer explanations for the section’s two main question types—sentence completion questions and reading comprehension questions—as well as [...]

Eating the Alphabet

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Red Wagon Books
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Ages 1-3. This appetizing alphabet book shows fruits and vegetables so juicy and alive, you’ll wish they could jump off the page and into your mouth. Even vegetable haters will find it hard to resist the vibrantly colored collage illustrations, which make each item [...]

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!

Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Book Description
Young and young-at-heart sticklers, unite! Lynne Truss and illustrator Bonnie Timmons provide hilarious proof that punctuation really does matter. Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how [...]

Viking Ships At Sunrise (Magic Tree House 15, paper)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
Jack and Annie are off in search of another story in jeopardy, this time at a monastery in ancient Ireland. Trouble arrives when Vikings land, and Jack and Annie must find a way to escape!  

Kaplan SAT Vocabulary Flashcards Flip-O-Matic (Flip-o-matic)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Kaplan
Publisher: Kaplan Education

Book Description
Kaplan SAT Vocabulary Flashcards Flip-O-Matic, Second Edition features:*500 essential SAT vocabulary words, their definitions, and sample sentences in a unique flashcard format

Scholastic Dictionary of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Scholastic Inc.
Publisher: Scholastic Reference

Book Description
Containing 12,000 synonyms, 10,000 antonyms, and 2,000 homonyms, this versatile book is the perfect reference tool for student writers. Not only will it help students expand their vocabularies, this lightweight volume will help young people pick the perfect words to express their thought and [...]

Letters and Numbers for Me

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Jan Olsen
Publisher: Handwriting Without Tears

The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Priscilla Turner
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Book Description
The unknown history of letters
For as long as any letter could remember, Vowels and Consonants had been enemies.
U without N? Q without U? Mpssh! you say. Yet once, long ago, P’s and Q’s minded their p’s and q’s, and though U [...]