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Following Baxter (Paperback)
This heartwarming adventure for dog lovers everywhere is a great match for fans of books such as The Fourteenth Goldfish and A Snicker of Magic. Eleven-year-old Jordie Marie Wallace has been waiting forever for someone to move in next door, so she is thrilled when Professor Reece arrives: she has a laboratory in her basement and an extraordinary dog named Baxter--who seems to understand everything Jordie says. Jordie and her younger brother T.J. begin walking Baxter and helping Professor Reece i
The Dictionary of Lost Words
In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholarscompiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decidesto collect the "objectionable" words they omit. "A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate orrepress."—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of theBook Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, shespends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where he
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