100 words every middle schooler should know

100 words every middle schooler should know from the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries

I thought this was a terrific little book/dictionary. These are words that you've probably encountered in your recreational reading, or maybe heard your teacher use, or maybe you've seen them in a textbook.

Well this book gives you the definition, the pronounciation, short notes on where the word comes from and each word is also shown in at least one quotation from a book by a popular YA writer.

Learn a few and I sure you'll impress your teachers, your parents and me.

P.S. I can still remember the day that a grade 8 student used the word plethora (I thought I was the only one using that word - I was amazed.)