{"id":15041,"date":"2021-10-18T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=15041"},"modified":"2021-10-17T17:30:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T21:30:59","slug":"blog-tour-the-lost-language-by-claudia-mills-excerpt-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-the-lost-language-by-claudia-mills-excerpt-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: The Lost Language by Claudia Mills (Excerpt + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE LOST LANGUAGE by Claudia Mills! I’m so excited because today I have an excerpt of the book to share with you! This book is truly amazing and I’m so excited to for you to find out more about it, PLUS enter for a chance to win a print copy!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/p>\n\"BlogThe Lost Language<\/strong> by Claudia Mills<\/a>
Published on<\/strong> October 12, 2021 by Margaret Ferguson Books<\/a>
Genres:<\/strong> Contemporary<\/a>, Linguistics<\/a>, Middle Grade<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 304
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Author Links:<\/strong> Website<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Goodreads<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>

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?
\nAs the girls embark on their quest to learn as much as possible of the near-extinct language of Guern\u00e9siais (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.
\nMaybe lost friendships, like lost languages, can never be completely saved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t