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Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
How did language come to be? Why can we speak, while cats and dogs can't? When, how, and where did our 7,000 world languages come from? Isabella looks at languages-- spoken, written and signed-- to find out where they came from and how they're changing.
2) Gibberish
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sound like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Publisher
Pimsleur
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Español
Description
Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what's going on in the world around you, learning English will expand your horizons and immeasurably enrich your life. The best part is that it doesn't have to be difficult or take years to master. Thirty minutes a day is all it takes, and we get you speaking right from the first day. Pimsleur courses use a scientifically-proven method...
Publisher
Pimsleur Language Programs
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what's going on in the world around you, learning English will expand your horizons and immeasurably enrich your life. The best part is that it doesn't have to be difficult or take years to master. Thirty minutes a day is all it takes, and we get you speaking right from the first day. Pimsleur courses use a scientifically-proven method...
6) Max's words
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone likes to think they know a bit about language: There are some words that you simply can't translate into English. The origin of a word tells you how it should be used. A dialect is inferior to a language. The problem is, none of these statements are true. In Don't Believe a Word, linguist David Shariatmadari explodes nine common myths about language and introduces us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics. By the end of...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 or so billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Punjabi). [This book]...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What letter does the word bee start with? If you said "B" you're right - in English! But in many, many languages, it actually starts with A. Bee is Anū in Igbo, Aamoo in Ojibwe, Abelha in Portugese. And Arı in Turkish. Come and explore the gorgeous variations in the ways we talk about familiar things, unified and illuminated through Ellen Heck's eye-catching, graphic scratchboard details and hidden letterforms."--
12) My father's shop
Author
Publisher
Kane/Miller Book Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While Mustafa strolls in Morocco's marketplace, a rooster starts to follow him and after he imitates the rooster, the nearby tourists all explain what sounds a rooster makes in their language.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Joyce Meyer is one of the world's leading practical Bible teachers. Her daily broadcast, Enjoying Everyday Life, airs on hundreds of television networks and radio stations worldwide.
Joyce has written nearly 100 inspirational books. Her bestsellers include Power Thoughts; The Confident Woman; Look Great, Feel Great; Starting Your Day Right; Ending Your Day Right; Approval Addiction; How to Hear from God; Beauty for Ashes; and Battlefield of the...
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Best friends and sixth-graders Betsy and Lizard go on a quest to save the severely endangered language, Guern�esiais, partly to impress Betsy's linguist mother.
Author
Publisher
New Directions Paperbook Original
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language." As she searches...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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