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B magical volume 1
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English
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Now that Beatrix (known to her friends as B) is eleven, she should be able to cast spells, just like everyone else in her magical family. But no matter how hard she tries, B is still an ordinary girl. Then one day at school, everything changes. B discovers that there's more than one kind of spelling -- and the F-U-N is just the beginning!
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viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Perhaps you're reading a book and stop to puzzle over absurd spelling rules, or you hear someone talking and get stuck on an expression, or your kid quizzes you on homework. Suddenly you ask yourself, "Wait, why do we do it this way?" You think about it, try to explain it, and keep running into walls. It doesn't conform to logic. It doesn't work the way you'd expect it to. There doesn't seem to be any rule at all. In Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent...
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225 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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Inspired by the author's tenure at "The New Yorker," a collection of whimsical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English includes entries ranging from "exit Jesus" and "doggy-dog world" to "for all intensive purposes" and "dairy airs."
10) E-mergency!
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English
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The letter E has fallen and injured herself-- which letters will replace her and how will words be spelled without her?
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141 pages ; 22 cm
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Español
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Compendio de ortografia espanola con las ultimas normas aprobadas por la Real Academia Espanola y otras aportaciones. Incluye indicaciones sobre acentuacion, puntuacion, uso de las mayusculas, empleo de las abreviaturas, etc. Redactado en estillo didactico, claro y cercano al lector, con abundantisima ejemplification, y estructurado para un facil consulta. Imprescindible para estudiantes a partir de ensenanza media o cualquir usuario o profesional...
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56 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Introduces punctuation, spelling and capitalization. Looks at such topics as punctuation within words, spelling rules and their exceptions, homonyms, and shows why punctuation and spelling are so important for conveying meaning.
14) Ms. Spell
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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English
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Mrs Spell gives a fun-filled lesson in spelling, pointing out some common mistakes and confusions and giving tips for remembering how to spell certain words.
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xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Timorous tenderfoots, lackadaisical slouches, and closed-minded obscurants should avoid this fun and devious vocabulary book. Everyone else will delight in its blend of flabbergasting words, wacky quotes, and creative quizzes. Educator Phil Eisenhower has selected the words SAT and GRE takers love to hate-such as obdurate, edacious, and vulpine-and made them memorable. Realizing that people remember insults better than any other words, the author...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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Turning the traditional idea of an alphabet book on its head, P is for Pterodactyl is perfect for anyone who has ever been stumped by silent letters or confused by absurd homophones. This whimsical, unique book takes silent letter entries like "K is for Knight" a step further with "The noble knight's knife nicked the knave's knee." Lively illustrations provide context clues, and alliterative words help readers navigate text like "a bright white gnat...
19) Bee nation
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In Saskatchewan in 2016, students are competing in the first ever province-wide First Nations Spelling Bee. The winners will travel with their families to Toronto, Ontario for the 29th Annual national championships of the Spelling Bee of Canada.
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