Word Smart Junior II: More Straight-A Vocabulary (Princeton Review) [Paperback]

Cynthia Brantley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 14, 1997 | Age Level: 11 and up | Series: Princeton Review

Get ready to put some charisma in your conversations, and to dazzle your friends and teachers with dynamic discourse.  Bridget, Barnaby, Babette, and fat cat 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 now 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 a certain test that's waiting right around the corner, the SAT (maybe you've heard of it already?)

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"An excellent choice for home or classroom..."--Writing Teacher

"...helpful to grade school students..."--Associated Press

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Get ready to put some charisma in your conversations, and to dazzle your friends and teachers with dynamic discourse.  Bridget, Barnaby, Babette, and fat cat 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 now 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 a certain test that's waiting right around the corner, the SAT (maybe you've heard of it already?)

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 11 and up
  
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Review; 1st edition (July 14, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375750304
• ISBN-13: 978-0375750304
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,639,562 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars children need this book, July 21, 2001

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jose reyes md "jreyes2248" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Word Smart Junior II: More Straight-A Vocabulary (Princeton Review) (Paperback)

Along with the first book, this book has the best new-word learning assistance per time spent. The only other way is to read copiously and you how much time that would take. The stories are almost fairy-tale like but I loved them. This is a must have. I bought a dozen for all my junior relatives.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars advice from a former SAT coach, August 30, 2006

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Wyote (Seoul) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Word Smart Junior II, 2nd Edition (Smart Juniors Guide for Grades 6 to 8) (Paperback)

I used to work as a professional SAT Reading coach, making big bucks; the key issue for most of my students was vocabulary. Rather, VOCABULARY. (The other is slowing down and thinking as--not after--they read.)

Many questions on the SAT reading section amount to vocabulary questions.

What this means is that if you want to improve your SAT scores, if you are an ambitious student trying to get into one of the top schools, there is no two ways about it: you have to study vocabulary.

And study vocabulary.

And study vocabulary.

You cannot study simply one book, or even one series of books. You have to study several series.

However, the Princeton Review Word Smart series is the best that I know of. You should start here. Even if you think you have a good vocabulary, start here just to be on the safe side, and you can move on later.

You would recommend studying any of the vocabulary books that I've ever seen--but I recommend mastering the Word Smart series. These really are by far the best--if you are shopping here, it probably means you need these books.

If you were one of my students, your parents paying lots of money, I would force you to master these books, and I would ride you like a horse until you did. And then your scores would come up, your parents would love me and tell all their friends, and I would get more jobs and more money. That's how it works.

Anyway, these are certainly the best vocabulary books on the market. Even if you're studying vocabulary for some other reason, these are probably still the best.

Good luck!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great BOOK!, November 10, 2010

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kathyV - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Word Smart Junior II, 2nd Edition (Smart Juniors Guide for Grades 6 to 8) (Paperback)

THIS IS A GREAT BOOK IF YOU WANT TO BROADEN YOUR CHILD'S VOCABULARY. HAS TONS OF WORDS. THERE ARE VOCABULARY QUIZZES AFTER EVERY STORY AND DEFINITIONS IN THE BACK.