TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mills,Claudia
TI  - The lost language
SN  - 9780823450381
AV  - PZ7.M63963 Lp 2021
U1  - FIC MIL 
KW  - Best friends
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Middle schools
KW  - Schools
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Families
KW  - Children's stories
KW  - Novels in verse
KW  - fast
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Romans en vers
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Romans
N1  - "Margaret Ferguson Books" -- title page; Ages 9 to 12; Holiday House; Grades 4-6; Holiday House
N2  - "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 Guerňsiais (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."--
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