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"Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning...
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A wonderful addition to Alma Junior Classics, beautifully illustrated by Peter Bailey. It contains an extra section for young readers and a glossary. Growing up in a poor New York neighbourhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he meets his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, he is actually Lord Fauntleroy, and is expected to become an English gentleman. Whisked away from his mother and his friends,...
8) Be anything!
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Creativity and learning go hand in hand! These interactive games and activities will make it fun for kids to learn new things and play in a world of imagination! Learn colors, shapes, numbers, and letters; Recognize and mix colors; Play dress-up and disover different occupations; Build math skills and more."--
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"Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. "A church is a wonderful place for a wedding," muses Flavia, "surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar." Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the...
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Introduce children to a world of creation and imagination with these interactive science, technology, engineering, art, and math based games. This SuperPack contains 2x as many apps as the standard Launchpad. Children can: build and create objects and inventions; explore modeling and animation; practise math and problem-solving skills."--
13) Mission up!
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Kids will dig, fly and rocket into space to learn science, technology, engineering, art, and math with these activities, games, and tools that teach them about animals, natural resources, environmental issues, and more. This SuperPack contains 2X as many apps as the standard Launchpad. Learn and explore colors; Discover force, accelearation, buoyancy, heat, and elasticity; Explore natural energy sources"--Publisher description.
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