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It Figures!: Fun Figures of Speech
Marvin Terban, Giulio Maestro
Paperback (Clarion Books, Oct. 18, 1993)An introduction to six common figures of speech -- metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole -- with guidelines for their use and numerous illustrative examples.
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The Voice of the People: American Democracy in Action
Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro
Hardcover (Lothrop Lee & Shepard, April 1, 1996)A basic guide to voting and the election process in the United States
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The Story of Religion
Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro
Hardcover (Clarion Books, Aug. 16, 1996)Introduces the history of religious belief and the practice of religion in the world today, illuminating the differences that make each religious group unique and the fundamental beliefs that all groups share.
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What's a Frank Frank? Tasty Homograph Riddles
Giulio Maestro
Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct. 1, 1984)A collection of original riddles making use of homographs, words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
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Guppies in Tuxedos: Funny Eponyms
Giulio Maestro
Library Binding (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 1, 1988)Traces the origins of more than 100 eponymous words--words derived from the names of people or places
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The Discovery of the Americas Activities Book
Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro
Paperback (Lothrop Lee & Shepard, March 1, 1992)Suggests class and individual activities to explore both hypothetical and historical voyages of discovery to America
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What's Mite Might?: Homophone Riddles to Boost Your Word Power!
Giulio Maestro
Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct. 1, 1986)This collection of sixty-one vocabulary-building homophone riddles features humorous illustrations that contain clues to the tricky riddles
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The Remarkable Plant in Apartment Four
Giulio Maestro
Hardcover (Dutton Childrens Books, June 1, 1973)A boy's little green plant causes turmoil when it grows overnight into all the other apartments in his building.
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More Halloween Howls
Giulio Maestro
Hardcover (Dutton Juvenile, Aug. 30, 1992)Sixty riddles illustrated by a crew of colorful cats, bats, witches, werewolves, ghosts, and ghouls provide the perfect warm-up for anxious trick-or-treaters.
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The Story of Clocks and Calendars : Marking a Millennium
Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro
Hardcover (HarperCollins, April 1, 1999)January 1, 2001, will mark the beginning of a new thousand-year period on earth. But our earth is more than four billion years old, and humans have lived on our planet for perhaps two hundred thousand years. So how can it be the year 2000? The answer is that it is the year 2000 only on the Gregorian calendar. On the Hebrew calendar, the year will be 5760. On the Muslim calendar, the year will be 1420. And on the Chinese calendar, it will be 4698. So what year is it really? It all depends on what calendar you use and when you started counting the years.Here is the fascinating story of timekeeping: how, over thousands of years, calendars and clocks came to be. 00-01 Young Reader's Choice Award Program Masterlist Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council
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Mad as a Wet Hen!: And Other Funny Idioms
Marvin Terban, Giulio Maestro
Paperback (HMH Books for Young Readers, June 18, 2007)Have you ever been so angry that you were mad as a wet hen? The meanings of 134 lively idioms are explained in this entertaining and useful book.
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Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus : 1500-1620
Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro
Library Binding (Lothrop Lee & Shepard, Sept. 1, 1994)A second volume in an award-winning picture book series of American history relates the exciting, moving, and sometimes sad story of the first explorers who came to America, including Hudson, Ponce de Leo+a7n, Drake, and John Smith.
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