Best Selling Books by HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

A general dictionary of the English language adapted for high school students, including etymologies, biographical entries, geographical entries, usage notes, and synonyms.

Build stronger math skills through meaningful practice and problem solving.

Rabbit and Turtle decide not to follow a recipe but to use this and that to bake their bread.

Enter the world of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, and the Dwarves as they continue their journey. This new book in the Hobbit range includes different fact files and activities designed to inform the reader about the story and its characters and invite them to participate using the stickers. Includes four pages of full-color photo stickers featuring the characters, and creatures from the films.

By feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds, a girl proves she is a real princess.

A vivid and dramatic autobiography that provides exciting and incisive rights into the process of acculturation of a young boy from a relatively simple existence in a Mexican village to a somewhat hectic and complex life in a different culture and in an urban setting.

"Derived from the hardcover edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English language, fifth edition"--T.p. verso.

A cumulative tale relating how the cake came to be made before Mack ate it.

Accompanying the story about a boy captured by an octopus while fishing are suggestions for writing and illustrating your own story.

A medical reference that emphasizes preventive medicine

Presents the etymology of over 500 words in the English language.

A survey of college algebra and trigonometry and precalculus following the text by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards, including some study hints.

Includes 35,000 synonyms listed and defined, alphabetically arranged and fully cross-referenced; a unique category index; and more. [544p. 4.25 x 6.75]