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[2018], Primary, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the origins of Noah Webster's first American English dictionary and the struggles of Webster and Ben Franklin to help unify the new country through language in the 1780s.
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2005., Juvenile, Rosen Pub. Group's PowerPlus Books Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The library of American lives and timesSummary Note: This is a biography of Noah Webster, best known for his dictionary, "An American Dictionary of the English Language," published in 1828.
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-- Noah Webster and his words2012, Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his twenty-year effort to write the all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old.
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-- Noah Webster and his words2012., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his twenty-year effort to write the all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old.
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[2015]., Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Noah Webster may be best remembered the enormous and ambitious task of writing his famous dictionary, but for him, this accomplishment was a means to an end. His true goal was to streamline the language spoken in our newly formed country so that it could be used as a force to bring people together and be a source of national pride. Though people laughed at his ideas, Webster never doubted himself. In the end, his so-called foolish notions achieved just what he had hoped.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B WEBSTER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A biography on Noah Webster, a controversial political activist, the primary shaper of the American language, and author of the Blue-Backed Spellers and the famous dictionary that bears his name. Illustrated with black-and-white archival images"--Provided by publisher.
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2015., Adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: B WEBSTER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Describes the life of Noah Webster, his work as a writer and activist, and his creation of a dictionary that united Americans, influenced the new country's Founding Fathers, and shaped the United States.
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c2009., Primary, Calkins Creek Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book is an exploration of the life and work of Noah Webster, which discusses his promotion of a living American language and universal education for all, career as a newspaper publisher, and creation of America's first insurance company.
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2015, Primary, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: JNF007030 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A picture book biography of Noah Webster"--Provided by publisher.