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The Lost Language
Taschenbuch von Claudia Mills
Sprache: Englisch

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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
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
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By Claudia Mills
Details
Empfohlen (bis): 12
Empfohlen (von): 9
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Kinder & Jugend
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780823452507
ISBN-10: 0823452506
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mills, Claudia
Hersteller: Candlewick Press (MA)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 206 x 137 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Claudia Mills
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2022
Gewicht: 0,276 kg
Artikel-ID: 121201778
Über den Autor
By Claudia Mills
Details
Empfohlen (bis): 12
Empfohlen (von): 9
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Kinder & Jugend
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780823452507
ISBN-10: 0823452506
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mills, Claudia
Hersteller: Candlewick Press (MA)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 206 x 137 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Claudia Mills
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2022
Gewicht: 0,276 kg
Artikel-ID: 121201778
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