Claudia Mills

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The Lost LanguagePaperback, 1 November 2022

The Lost Language
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Reading Age
Ages: 9-12
Grade Levels
4-7
Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Date Published
1 Nov 2022
ISBN-10
0823452506
ISBN-13
9780823452507

Description

The quest to save the words of a dying language - and to find the words to save what may be a dying friendship - lies at the heart of this exquisite verse novel.

Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages, like your mom, you and I SAVED one instead?

As the girls embark on their quest to learn as much as possible of the near-extinct language of Guernésiais (spoken on the Isle of Guernsey, off the coast of France), their friendship faces unexpected strains. With Lizard increasingly obsessed with the language project, Betsy begins to seek greater independence from her controlling and charismatic friend, as well as from her controlling and charismatic mother. Then tragedy threatens Betsy's life beyond what any words can express, and Lizard does something unthinkable.

Maybe lost friendships, like lost languages, can never be completely saved.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Product Details

Audience:
Ages: 9-12
Author:
Claudia Mills
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 November 2022
Dimensions:
20.93 x 14.15 x 2.06 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 4-7
ISBN-10:
0823452506
ISBN-13:
9780823452507
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Weight:
272.16 gm

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