Word Hunters
Word Hunters

Author: Nick Earls

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0702250767

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From award-winning author Nick Earls and illustrator Terry Whidborne comes the third and final book in a mysterious, action-packed series for the word nerd in us all. The final battle is coming, the grey-robes are armed and dangerous and ready for war. Lexi, Al and their friends are ready too ? or as ready as they can be. The journey so far has been harder than they imagined ? they have fought ancient warriors, searched long-lost cities for clues, and trained night and day for the moment when they face their arch enemy. But will it be enough? Can they defeat him and save the English language forever? In this amazing last adventure, Lexi and Al plunge back into the past to fight for English, and to discover that language isnOCOt the only thing worth fighting for."

Word Hunters
Word Hunters

Author: Hannah Sarvasy

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 9027264449

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In Word Hunters, eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These scholar-explorers have enlightened the world to the inner workings of languages in remote communities of Africa (West, East, and South), Amazonia, the Arctic, Australia, the Caucasus, Oceania, Siberia, and East Asia. They report some linguistic eureka moments, but also discuss cultural missteps, illness, and the other challenges of pursuing linguistic data in extreme circumstances. They write passionately about language death and their responsibilities to speech communities. The stories included here—the stuff of departmental and family legends—are published publicly for the first time.

Word Hunters
Word Hunters

Author: Nick Earls

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0702248789

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Lexi and Al Hunter are twins with almost nothing in common aside fromtheir parents and their birthday. At school Lexi hangs with her friends in the cool crowd, while Al hides in the library reading about history, battles, and faraway places. When the twins stumble upon an old dictionary, their world as they know it changes. They are blasted into history to hunt down the words that threaten to vanish from our past and present. Their lives and the future of the world are at stake. Can they find a way back home? Or will they be trapped in the past forever? Now more than ever, they need to depend on each other if they want to survive. Amysterious, action-packed series for the word nerd in us all."

The Word Hunters
The Word Hunters

Author: Nick Earls

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0702250732

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From award-winning author Nick Earls and illustrator Terry Whidborne comes the second book in a mysterious, action-packed series for the word nerd in us all. In their previous adventure, Lexi and Al thought they had seen it all ? time travel, epic battles, ancient cities on the point of collapse, the invention of the telephone and ? vomiting rats. But nothing could prepare them for the realisation that their missing grandfather is a word hunter too and has been lost in the past. Only Lexi and Al can save him. But how do you find someone in 3,000 years of history? With more battles, more action and more words, these hunters are discovering history like never before, as they search for their grandfather ? the lost hunter.

The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi

Author: Neal Bascomb

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2013-08-27

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0545562392

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A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. This Sydney Taylor Book Award- and YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award-winning story of Eichmann's capture is now a major motion picture starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, Operation Finale! In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials -- one that cemented the Holocaust in the public imagination. This is the thrilling and fascinating story of what happened between these two events. Illustrated with powerful photos throughout, impeccably researched, and told with powerful precision, THE NAZI HUNTERS is a can't-miss work of narrative nonfiction for middle-grade and YA readers.

Wish Hunter
Wish Hunter

Author: Jordan Riley Swan

Publisher: Jordan Riley Swan LLC

Published: 2023-02-20

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1735587524

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Explore the dark underworld of wish hunting in the compelling first installment of this urban fantasy trilogy set in Savannah, Georgia—perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and V. E. Schwab. Nadia Kaminski’s family has stolen wishes for generations, auctioning them off to skeevy business tycoons and politicians in back-alley deals. Their operation is simple enough. Find someone who gained a wish after saving a life. Trick the wisher into sharing a deep secret. Steal the wish. And as a marriage counselor, Nadia has more access to people’s secrets than most.But when Nadia comes across the perfect opportunity to steal a wish for herself, she takes it—and the rock star she’s stolen it from desperately wants his wish back.As Nadia tries to figure out how to get rid of the cocky thorn in her side, she must face off against vengeful wish hunters, her all-too-powerful family, and the consequences of her own desires—because stealing wishes can be a deadly affair. Content note: spousal death, gun violence, miscarriage.

Word Sorts and More
Word Sorts and More

Author: Kathy Ganske

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1462533353

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Tens of thousands of teachers have used this skillfully crafted book to build children's word knowledge with engaging categorization activities organized by spelling stages. Featuring rich classroom examples, the revised and expanded second edition gives increased attention to teaching English learners (ELs), among other enhancements. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the volume includes over 200 reproducible word, picture, and letter sorts, plus additional reproducible forms and activities in the appendices. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download and print the reproducible appendix materials. The website also features supplemental PowerPoint assessment slides and 16 pages of Spanish–English cognate sorts. New to This Edition: *Greatly expanded content on teaching ELs, including a chapter showcasing researcher perspectives as well as supplemental online resources. *Cutting-edge SAIL (survey, analyze, interpret, link) framework for small-group lesson planning, complete with a detailed sample lesson and script. *Additional user-friendly tools: student performance records and the No-Nonsense Word Recognition Assessment. *Firsthand teacher perspectives now get a full chapter; many are new. See also Ganske's Word Journeys, Second Edition: Assessment-Guided Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Instruction, which provides a comprehensive framework for assessing and building word knowledge, and Mindful of Words, Second Edition: Spelling and Vocabulary Explorations, Grades 4–8, which presents word study activities for the intermediate and middle grades.

Quilt Talk
Quilt Talk

Author: Sam Hunter

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1607058898

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You’ve got something unique to tell the world. What better way to get your message across than sewing your words into a quilt? Fiber artist and quilt designer Sam Hunter teaches you to say it all with 12 new projects featuring modern, paper-pieced text blocks. The book includes patterns of an easy-to-read font that includes lower- and uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Sam covers everything you need to know about paper piecing, choosing fabrics, and designing your own quilted words. Use Sam’s designs to get started, and then stitch up your own words to give any occasion the ultimate personal touch.

Minnesota
Minnesota

Author: Theodore Christian Blegen

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 774

ISBN-13: 9780816607549

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The acclaimed history is brought up to date through placement of the political, economic, social, and cultural developments since 1963 within the larger context of national and international events

The Word Detective
The Word Detective

Author: John Simpson

Publisher:

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0465060692

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The former chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary describes his thirty-seven-year journey through words, enlivened by entertaining and erudite