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The books, fast-paced historical fiction for kids in grades 3–5, focus on historical disasters from the perspective of a boy or girl who lived to tell the tale. She is also the author of Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree , a Golden Kite honor book for fiction and Oprah's Book Club pick, and the sequel Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love .
She also has written science-related articles for Discovery Channel School's series of Student Activity Books. Her first effort at writing a book, titled The Laziness Of Peter Rabbit, was written when she was 12 years old for her younger sister, Cheryl, who was six. The book was made of construction paper, bound with yarn, and used her own ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
It was a New York Times bestseller [15] and appeared on the Parents magazine list of top 50 children's books, [16] as well as in the New York Times ' s "50 Years of Children's Books" review. [ 17 ] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". [ 18 ]
The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
For example, the average estimated cost of books and supplies per first-time, full-time student for academic year 2003–2004 was $898 at 4-year public institutions, or about 26 percent of the cost of tuition and fees.
Monica Connelly survived the Indian Ocean Tsunami at age 13 in 2004. 19 years later, in 2023, she published a memoir about her experience. She managed to reach the surface but passed out from ...
Simon & Schuster, who published Running Out of Time, noted that the film The Village (2004) had a number of similarities to the book. [3] The film's plot also features a village whose inhabitants choose to live in a manner reminiscent of the 1800s, when the year is 2004 and a young female protagonist escapes to acquire medical supplies.