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Kiss My Asterisk: A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and Grammar
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Kiss My Asterisk: A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and GrammarKiss My Asterisk: A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and Grammar

Kiss My Asterisk shows grammar as it’s never been seen before: uncomplicated, laugh-out-loud funny, and, dare we say, a little risqué.

Its lessons, which are 100 percent free of complicated grammar jargon, have been carefully selected to include today’s most common, noticeable errors—the ones that confuse our readers or make them wonder if we are, in fact, smarter than a fifth grader.

 
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Tags: Asterisk, grammar, confuse, readers, errors, Punctuation, Grammar, Feisty
Understanding modals of necessity: must, have got to, have to [infographic]
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Understanding modals of necessity: must, have got to, have to [infographic]

Like other modal verbs, modals of necessity are guilty of strange behavior. Learn about their feisty habits with this infographic.

 
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Tags: necessity, infographic, modals, their, feisty, thumb
Bebe Goes Shopping
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Bebe Goes ShoppingBebe Goes Shopping Bebe Goes Shopping A quick trip to the supermercado? Not with Bebe in the shopping cart. Snatching the grocery list and picking out chocolate-covered pickles, he's not being very helpful. Just as Mama is ready to throw up her manos, she gives sweet Bebe a box of animal cookies. A dulce at last! He finds a camel, nibbles on a giraffe . . . eats an oso. Then they're off to the checkout line, smiling all the way. Susan Middleton Elya's tender yet feisty story and Steven Salerno's vivid art are perfect for budding English- and Spanish-speaking readers. Includes a glossary of Spanish words.
 
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Tags: Shopping, feisty, story, Steven, tender
We Two - Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
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We Two - Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, RivalsWe Two - Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century--and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity, qualities neither had seen much of as children.

 
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Tags: Victoria, Albert, feisty, strong, queen, Rivals, Partners, Rulers
Wishin' and Hopin' - A Christmas Story
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Wishin' and Hopin' - A Christmas StoryWishin' and Hopin' - A Christmas Story

Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin’ and Hopin’—an unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season. Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris’s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb’s Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello—a distant cousin of the iconic Annette!


 
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Tags: Christmas, Story, holiday, feisty, parochial, Wishin, Hopin