TY - BOOK AU - Bryant,Jennifer AU - Sweet,Melissa TI - The right word: Roget and his thesaurus SN - 9780802853851 U1 - 409.2B 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Grand Rapids MI PB - Eerdmans Books for Young Readers KW - Roget, Peter Mark, KW - Lexicographers KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Philologists N1 - Accelerated Reader; LG; 4.0; 0.5 N2 - "For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best companions -- and it wasn’t long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn’t write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time."--Amazon.com ER -