The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Your Child Needs to Know
- ISBN-10
- 0618408533
- ISBN-13
- 9780618408535
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 306
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Eric Donald Hirsch
Description
Provides an outline of the knowledge that should be acquired by the end of sixth grade in twenty-one subject areas.
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