Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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c2011., Juvenile, Child's World Call No: 428.2 HEI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explains the purpose and correct usage of similes and metaphors in the English language. Includes examples, a glossary, and further resources.
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c2006., Child's World Call No: 428.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Magic of languageSummary Note: Defines similes and metaphors and describes how and why they are used in sentences.
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2006., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Call No: Picture Book BOR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: A woman reminisces about her neighbor's son who was the object of a letter writing campaign by some fourth-graders when he went away to war in 1943.
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c2003., Primary, Carolrhoda Books Call No: Picture Book NEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of a young girl's dramatic escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad, from the perspective of her beloved rag doll.
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2006., Pre-adolescent, Boyds Mills Press Call No: Picture Book WIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Young Jinho is bored with the childhood stories that his grandfather tells; but as the two build a kite together, Jinho begins to see and understand his grandfather's customs and his own Korean heritage.
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[2008], Primary, Holiday House Call No: E LEE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a story told entirely in similes, Rufus the fox is behaving strangely, but for a very good reason. Includes a definition of simile and suggestions for writing a simile story.
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c2006., Pre-adolescent, Cinco Puntos Press Call No: Picture Book TIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
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c2006., Primary, Heryin Books Call No: Picture Book CHEN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: A featherless chicken figures out how to fit in with four beautiful chickens, and realizes he isn't as different from the rest of the group as he thought.
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By Say, Allen1993., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: E Say Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
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c2003., Primary, Clarion Books Call No: E Fle Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Poetic prose describes a full autumn moon and the magical effect it has on the earth, plants, animals, and people around it.
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c2007., Primary, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate to Philadelphia.
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c2010., Holiday House Call No: 428.1 LAW Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides an American simile or expression for each letter of the alphabet and examines how these saying came into existence. Features full-color illustrations alongside each saying.
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2009, c2006., Primary, Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Picture Book RAV Edition: 1st Square Fish ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.
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c1987., Juvenile, Philomel Books Call No: E Yol Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
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c2009., Primary, Millbrook Press Call No: 808 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Words are categoricalSummary Note: Comical cats explain the differences between similes and metaphors.
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c2009., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: 428.2 CLE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Words are CATegoricalSummary Note: Describes in rhyme the difference between similes and metaphors.
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c2011., Picture Window Books Call No: 428.1 LOE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Ways to say itSummary Note: Describes what a simile is and how it is used in the English language. Offers several humorous examples of similes, and features fact boxes stating the origins of many popular similes.
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-- How the wild west was tamed2008, c2004., Primary, Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: Picture Book FRA Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It takes some effort, but Grizz Brickbottom convinces his fellow cowboys that they need a canine companion on the trail, but Foofy the miniature poodle is not what any of them expected.