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Other Words for Home is a 2019 free verse children's book by Jasmine Warga. The story is about a family of Syrian refugees with Jude, a 12-year-old girl, as protagonist. [ 1 ] The book won a 2020 Newbery Honor .
Goozack was another word for the door in the book Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger. After the principal ran into his office door and spilled coffee over his clothes, he said that the word "door" was a bad word. Anyone who said "door" would get in trouble. So he introduced the word "goozack" to replace the word door.
Frindle is a middle-grade American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Aladdin Paperbacks in 1996. It was the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award, which is granted by the Children's Literature Association annually to recognize one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major literary award at the ...
The News & Observer ' s Elizabeth Ward listed Shiloh as one of the best children's books in 1991. She called the book a "heartstopping, but tough-as-steel story of a boy and an abused dog in the hardscrabble hill country of West Virginia". [48] Author Timothy Morris deemed Shiloh to be the "most celebrated dog novel of the nineties". [35]
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Book the First: The Bad Beginning is the first novel of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.The novel tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who become orphans following a fire and are sent to live with Count Olaf, who attempts to steal their inheritance.
The Story About Ping is a popular American children's book written by Marjorie Flack and illustrated by Kurt Wiese.First published in 1933, Ping is an illustrated story about a domesticated Chinese duck lost on the Yangtze River. [1]
Mr. Collum: The director of Rothschild Manor orphanage, where Nicholas lives during the course of the book. Mr. Pileus: The general handyman of Child's end, another name for Rothschild Manor. John Cole: A 12-year-old boy with chicken-pox scars all over his face who becomes friends with Nicholas at the Manor.