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1) Fly by night
Author
Series
Fly by night volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old orphan, Mosca Mye, and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man Eponymous Clent, driven by her love of language and to find a better life.
2) Max's words
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
Author
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Mimi is a writer and when she finds that some of her favorite words for natural things, such as wren, violet, and dandelion, are disappearing she appoints her granddaughter, Brooke, as the keeper of wild words, and shows her how to bring them to life by knowing, appreciating, and using the things they stand for.
6) The pledge
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian kingdom where the classes are separated by the languages they speak, Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has a secret gift that is revealed when she meets a mysterious young man named Max.
Author
Series
Crime travelers volume 01
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While sleeping on the roof of his father's hotel, thirteen-year-old Lucas Benes finds a baby alone and learns that the Good Company has restarted its profitable kidnapping business. Multilingual and already on his third passport, Lucas leads a network of international teenagers through the hotspots of Paris--from the catacombs to the Eiffel Tower--in an all-out effort to spoil a brainwashing ceremony that could potentially turn them all into "Good"...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 450L
Language
English
Description
A child learns different creatures are not being rude when they do not reply, they simply do not speak the same language, so from then on the child, the bee, the fish, and the lion sit by the tree, share stories and work together to never misunderstand each other.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
13) Pie in the sky
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Rhyming text and appealing illustrations highlight children from various places around the world engaging in many of the same activities as they get ready for bed. Young readers will learn how to say good night in eleven different languages including Mandarin, Russian, Italian, Finnish, Swahili, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, German, French, and Korean."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At Mina's new kindergarten she listens to stories, songs and chatter in an unfamiliar language. She tries out sounds that roar in her throat and tickle her tongue until the new words feel like her own. Then one day, Mina realizes that this language now belongs to her and she belongs to this new world"--Jacket flap.
18) The essence
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has defeated the tyrant Queen Sabara and taken control of Ludania, only to have Sabara's soul fuse itself with her own.
Author
Series
Hannah and the angels volume 8
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Words. There are long words and short words, nice words and mean words. There are silly words, scary words, and hard-to-spell words. There are so many words in our world! But where did they all come from? Inside this innovative children's book, God gives the power of words to humankind. At first God and the angels are pleased with how people use words, but over time they start to use words to make curses, lies, and threats. The angels beg God to take...
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