language and languages

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.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

"Kamala, a talkative young pangolin, is excited about her new school in a new country, but without knowing her classmates' language she feels isolated. Includes facts about Esperanto and pangolins"--Provided by publisher.

Best friends and sixth-graders Bumble and Lizard go on a quest to save the severely endangered language, Guern?siais, partly to impress Bumble's linguist mother.

"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--Provided by publisher.

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.

"Six children are at the park, one group speaks only English and the other only Spanish, but soon they learn to communicate through playing, dancing, and singing. The English and Spanish words in this story aren't directly translated"--Provided by publisher.

When her maternal grandfather comes from China, Helen, who is biracial, develops a special bond with him despite their age and language differences.

"A . . . scholar's . . . treatise on how learning other languages can change how we see the world, for the better"--Provided by publisher.