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1 online resource |
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To the Reader; Contents; Cast of Characters; 1 Great Aunt Adelaide; 2 The Cupola; 3 A Plague of Punctuation; 4 The Quest; 5 A Small Thesaurus; 6 The Times Table Inn; 7 The Mistress of Metaphor; 8 Merry Measure; 9 The Meter Yard; 10 Miss Needle; 11 The Poetry Council; 12 The Compass (A Mathematical Interlude); 13 The Noun Man; 14 The Beekeepers; 15 The Balm of Friendship; 16 Irrationality; 17 Zeta's Mirror; 18 The Land of Night; 19 Ladies in the Park; 20 Permission; 21 The Wagon; 22 The Shadowy Forest; 23 Sammy; 24 Into the Hollow Mountain; 25 The Astronomer; 26 Entertainment; 27 William. |
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28 The Fountain29 The Chasm; 30 The Roof in the Pond; Questions To Think About; Ivan and Daphne's Challenge Activities; About the Author/Illustrator. |
| Summary |
"If this is an adventure, we should just plunge in ... ". When thirteen-year-old cousins Ivan and Daphne go on a treasure hunt in the rain one summer day, they never expect to stumble into a whole new world where words and numbers run wild. After the cousins outwit a plague of punctuation, grateful villagers beg them to find Lexicon's missing children, who have been enticed away by dancing lights in the sky. Trekking between villages in search of clues, the cousins encounter a talking thesaurus, a fog of forgetting, the Mistress of Metaphor, a panel of poets, feuding parts of speech, a. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.9 9.0 146698. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Cousins -- Juvenile fiction.
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English language -- Usage -- Juvenile fiction.
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Cousins -- Fiction.
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English language -- Usage -- Fiction.
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JUVENILE FICTION -- General.
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Cousins. (OCoLC)fst00881894
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English language -- Usage.
(OCoLC)fst00911918
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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| Added Author |
Charles, Joan (Artist)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Noyce, Pendred. Lost in Lexicon : An Adventure in Words and Numbers. New York : Scarletta Press, ©2011 9780983021926 |
| ISBN |
9780983021933 (electronic bk.) |
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0983021937 (electronic bk.) |
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