And this repetitive used of "old Greek speak" is making me wonder if this was a series of books commissioned out of a need to have "easy to read" books rather than just... writing books that were interesting. It's a huge tell for me because these kinds of 'jokes' are often used as a "we know this word is above you, so we're going to give you synonyms in the text and not footnotes" sort of thing... Which bothers me a lot now, but I've never met kids who like when books do this? Not to say there aren't any, but the complaints I often get if this is something a kid comes across? Is that it's condescending.

... Which makes me want to look more into Capstone Press.

And if it's not a book written for that purpose, then it's a whole entire failure for this writer to understand her audience.