The list / Patricia Forde.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781492647966
- ISBN: 1492647969
- Physical Description: viii, 353 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published as The Wordsmith in 2014 in Ireland by Little Island Books." |
Target Audience Note: | HL600L Lexile Decoding demand: 97 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 85 (very high) Structure demand: 86 (very high) Lexile |
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Subject: | Vocabulary > Fiction. Apprentices > Fiction. Science fiction. Vocabulary > Juvenile fiction. Apprentices > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Fantasy. Science fiction. |
Available copies
- 8 of 17 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 17 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Adams PL Sys. - Decatur Branch | YAFIC FORDE LIS (Text) | 34207002134709 | Young Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/15/2024 |
Hussey-Mayfield Mem. PL - Zionsville | TEEN FIC FORDE, PATRICIA (Text) | 33946003225450 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Kendallville PL - Kendallville Main Branch | TEEN FICTION FORDE (Text) | 37516002031628 | Teen Fiction | Checked out | 04/15/2024 |
Kendallville PL - Limberlost Branch | KID FICTION FORDE (Text) | 37516002032107 | Kid Fiction | Checked out | 04/15/2024 |
Lebanon PL - Lebanon | Y F FOR I (Text) | 34330513184623 | Juvenile - Intermediate Fiction | In transit | - |
Lincoln Heritage PL - Dale Main Library | YA FOR (Text) | 70743000155355 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
Morgan Co PL - Martinsville Main Library | TW FIC FOR (Text) | 78551000533056 | Tween Collection | Checked out | 04/15/2024 |
New Castle-Henry County PL - New Castle | J FORD (Text) | 39231033462074 | Children's Fiction Collection | Checked out | 04/15/2024 |
Perry Co PL - Cannelton Branch | J FOR (Text) | 70622000040786 | CPL-Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Perry Co PL - Tell City Main Library | J F FOR (Text) | 70621000443440 | Juvenile - Chapter Books | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself. - Baker & Taylor
A Wordsmith's apprentice responsible for safeguarding forbidden language in a neo-medieval world where all but 500 sanctioned words are strictly censored uncovers a sinister plan to suppress all remaining language by robbing everyday citizens of their ability to speak, in a U.S. release of an award-winning book from Ireland. - Sourcebooks Inc.
Fahrenheit 451 meets The Giver in an award winning dystopian story about the dangers of censorship and how far we will go in the pursuit of freedom.
What if you were only allowed to speak 500 words?
The city of Ark is the last safe place on Earth: the polar ice caps have melted and flooded everything, leaving few survivors. To make sure humans do not make the same mistakes, Ark's leader John Noa decrees everyone in Ark must speak List, a language of only 500 words. Language is to blame for mankind's destruction, John Noa says, as politicians and governments hid the disastrous effects of global warming and environmental damage until it was too late.
Everyone must speak List ⦠except Letta.
As apprentice to the Wordsmith, Letta can read all the words that have ever existed. Forbidden words like freedom, music, and even pineapple tell her about a world she's never known.
One day her master disappears. John Noa tells Letta she is the new Wordsmith, and must shorten List to fewer and fewer words. Then Letta meets a teenage boy who somehow knows all the words that have been banned. Letta's faced with a dangerous choice: sit idly by and watch language slowly slip away or follow a stranger on a path to freedom . . . or banishment.
Letta chooses to fight for the very thing that keeps us human: language itself.
The List:
- The perfect tool to discuss censorship and freedom of speech with young readers
- A gripping, fast-moving story that will appeal to 5th grade readers and above, especially 10 year old girls that will love the strong character of Letta
- A discussion starter on the importance of language and the power of expression, and what it means for society
A 2018 Notable Children's Books Selection
A 2018-19 Maine Student Book Award Winner
A 2018 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year (Ages 12-14)
A Junior Library Guild Selection