The Lost Language

by Claudia Mills

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823452506
• ISBN13: 9780823452507
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Margaret Ferguson Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7