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1) The list
Author
Series
List (Forde) volume 1
Formats
Description
Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Fancy Nancy provides one or more of her favorite fancy words for each letter of the alphabet, defines them, and uses some in sentences that show what they mean to her, such as that she yearns--wants really badly--to visit Paris someday.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Jez Burrows opened the New Oxford American Dictionary and sat, mystified. Instead of the definition of "study" he was looking for, he found himself drawn to the strangely conspicuous, curiously melodramatic sentence that followed it: "He perched on the edge of the bed, a study in confusion and misery." It read like a tiny piece of fiction on the lam and hiding out in the dictionary--and it wasn't alone. Was it possible to reunite these fugitive fictions?...
14) Worser
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"William Wyatt Orser, a socially awkward middle schooler, is a wordsmith who, much to his annoyance, acquired the ironically ungrammatical nickname of “Worser" so long ago that few people at school know to call him anything else. Worser grew up with his mom, a professor of rhetoric and an introvert just like him, in a comfortable routine that involved reading aloud in the evenings, criticizing the grammar of others, ignoring the shabby mess of their...
Author
Publisher
Michael Sampson Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
The first language is ... sound! From the rooster crowing to Grandma sneezing, Antonio Vicente's playful words and Miguel Ordóñez's iconic, vibrant illustrations depict a day filled with onomatopoeias that help little ones identify different experiences and emotions. Listen closely--you never know what you might hear next!--
19) Splendid speller
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Nancy, who loves to use fancy words, and her friend Bree are proud to be the best spellers in their class, but when a spelling quiz proves tougher than Nancy thought, Nancy is faced with a difficult decision.