Provides definitions, pronunciation, etymology, part of speech designation, and other appropriate information. Intended for use by students in grades six to eight.

"Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary is geared towards students ages 8-11. This full-color reference contains more than 36,000 entries as well as hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and diagrams. The book includes paragraphs about word histories, word roots, and synonyms; quotations from children's literature; maps and Geographical Names; and guides to Capitalization and Punctuation"--

Offers more than thirty thousand objects and their parts with clear labels and annotations, including coverage of the natural world, physical sciences, technology, transportation, the arts, music, and sports.

Chickasaw Press offers a limited-edition re-issue of the historic work by Jesse Humes and Vinnie May (James) Humes, in hardcover. The re-issue is the first edition of the groundbreaking dictionary to be published under the Chickasaw Press imprint, and is presented as a companion volume to A Concise Chickasaw Dictionary, a new title for this publishing year. The Humes work, first published in 1971, was compiled and completed after Overton James, governor...