02522cam a2200373 4500 527629000 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781666177312 1666177318 bcd7a74c-319e-4a68-8825-8471cf96fa99 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6787051 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mills, Claudia. The Lost Language [Libby]. Tantor Media, Inc., 2021. of. Fiction. childrens. linguistics. Coming. Age. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 97MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 97MB. Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. Poetry. 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 Guernesiais (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. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. deWard, Erin. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bcd7a74c-319e-4a68-8825-8471cf96fa99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bcd7a74c-319e-4a68-8825-8471cf96fa99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)