Word Smart Junior II, 2nd Edition

About This Book

A PARENTS’ CHOICE AWARD—WINNING SERIES

Get ready to show some charisma in your conversations and dazzle your friends and teachers with dynamic discourse. Bridget, Barnaby, Babette, and their feline friend Beauregard are back in a brand-new venture as they try to stop the scoundrel aliens, Vargas and Gorgas, in their crusade to destroy Earth. Along the way they’ll have to elude dangerous predators like angry dinosaurs and abominable aliens.

While you are enjoying the exciting story and the many exotic places it takes you (like the foreboding Volcano of Doom and the long-ago Mesozoic era), you’ll be learning tons of cool vocabulary words with no exertion whatsoever. That’s right. It won’t feel like work at all! You’ll even be a step ahead of the game in preparing for your college entrance exams.

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments iii
Introduction vii
Chapter 1 Seventh Inning Stretch 1
Chapter 2 Knuckleballs and Tentacles 19
Chapter 3 Popo the Bandicoot 37
Chapter 4 Dr. Borges and the Library of the Infinite Fiction 55
Chapter 5 Volcano of Doom 71
Chapter 6 Judge, Jury, and Jailer 87
Chapter 7 Showdown 2026 103
Chapter 8 Like the Cheshire Cat 123
Chapter 9 Glossary 137
Chapter 10 Answers to Quizzes 233
About the Author243