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Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Chetwynd-Hayes worked in the furnishing trade. [3] His first published work was the science fiction novel The Man From The Bomb of 1959. He subsequently published many collections and ten other novels including The Grange , The Haunted Grange , And Love Survived and The Curse of the Snake God . [ 2 ]
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 .
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 ]
Denise Vega is an author of young-adult novels and of children's picture books [1] and a faculty member at Regis University. [2] Her debut novel, Click Here : (To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade), was released in December 2007 by Little, Brown. [3]
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...