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Author
Series
[Pledge trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2013
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
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly,...
7) Say hello!
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A little girl greets people in her neighborhood in many different languages.
9) The pledge
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2011
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
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After the assassination of her older sister Scilla, seventeen-year-old Jiara chooses to take her sister's place as the bride to the young king of a distant country, hoping to identify her sister's killer before Scilla's vengeful ghost murders their family. Includes author's note.
12) My father's shop
Author
Publisher
Kane/Miller Book Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
2006
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.
14) Talking leaves
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Set in a fantastical version of medieval Europe, The Man Who Spoke Snakish follows a young boy, Leemet, who lives with his hunter-gatherer family in the forest and is the last speaker of the ancient tongue of Snakish, a language that allows its speakers to command all animals.
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
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.