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A Kirkus Best Book of 2023
and powerful new novel about the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor
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Winner of the 2023 Pura Belpré Award for Children's Text
” – Trudy Ludwig
Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology Folklore A Kirkus Best Book ofThe English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with misunderstood snippets of languages snatched from the wreckage of conquest and colonialism. It wreaks merciless havoc upon grammar and spelling. It turns clinical terms into insults and children's tales into filthy
