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1) Frindle
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Language
English
Description
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
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Language
English
Description
"If this is an adventure, we should just plunge in..." When thirteen-year-old cousins Ivan and Daphne go on a treasure hunt in the rain one summer day, they never expect to stumble into a whole new world where words and numbers run wild. After the cousins outwit a plague of punctuation, grateful villagers beg them to find Lexicon's missing children, who have been enticed away by dancing lights in the sky. Trekking between villages in search of clues,...
3) Worser
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Language
English
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Description
William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The author charms readers in the way that only she can, with her beautifully drawn two-color tales. Included are Sweaterweather, about a turtle, a rabbit, and other creatures on a snowy journey; and tales of a s'more-stealing (yet repentant) raccoon and sweltering dinosaurs who cool off with a visit to the ice cream truck, as well as informational and exquisitely detailed depictions of beekeeping and the Mexico City subway system.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Otto is having a very palindramatic day. His pet, Pip, has gone missing, and his search for the dog leads him deeper and deeper into a strange and perplexing world--full of talking owls, stacks of cats, storms and mazes, boats and trains and automobiles...oh my! Everything seems to be the same backward and forward, and Pip isn't sure he'll ever find his way home to Mom and Pop. But you, reader, will enjoy his Oz-like journey thoroughly"--From the...
