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Pub. Date
2012
Description
The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades ruffling feathers and drawing laughter with his witty opinion columns, poems, and definitions. Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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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 U and I deserved not one iota of respect. For their part, Vowels knew only that the dot on the youngest i was far more important than the most capital W. And so they came to wage a fierce war to prove who were the better letters. But...
10) The foot book
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Beginner's text describes all sorts of feet doing all sorts of things.
All sorts of feet doing all sorts of things.
Author
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
Library Journal: A tie-in for a nine-part television series to be broadcast over PBS beginning in September, this is a wide-ranging account of the travels and changes of the English tongue from its beginnings to tomorrow, from England to America to Australia to Africa and India and the Pacific. Despite an occasionally perceptible British bias, the authors have tried hard to paint a colorful, vivid picture of the many faces and varieties of English....
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Once wildly popular and used by teachers across America to teach grammar, sentence diagramming is now a lost art to most people. But from the moment she encountered it in the seventh-grade classroom of Sister Bernadette, Kitty Burns Florey was fascinated by the bizarre method of mapping the words in a sentence. Now a veteran copyeditor, Florey studies the practice in a funny look back at its odd history, its elegant method, and its rich, ongoing possibilities--from...
15) Sheep in a Jeep
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Follows a group of hapless sheep as they careen through treacherous landscapes in a jeep.
16) On beyond zebra
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1955]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A nonsensical alphabet that begins after the letter "Z."
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
"One of the Most Popular features in The Atlantic Monthly is "Word Court," the delightful, and occasionally contentious, column in which Barbara Wallraff settles disputes about words and the ways in which we use them. Now the magazine's senior editor moves beyond that forum to tackle common and uncommon problems relating to newly coined vocabulary, grammar, slang, jargon, misused words, clarity of phrasing, tone, punctuation, pronunciation, showing...
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Series
Stink Moody volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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.