Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Mary Marony volume 4
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mary decides it's all right to cheat to make sure she wins a special lunch with her favorite teacher, but the results of her dishonesty end up surprising the whole second grade class.
3) Paperboy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Picked up by his parents and taken to the airport with stern instructions to avoid answering questions, Noah is rushed to East Berlin, where he confronts astonishing secrets about his and his family's true identity.
5) Jacky Ha-Ha
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jacky "Ha-Ha" Hart is a class clown with a penchant for pranking--and when she's required to act in the school play to appease her frustrated teachers, she must conquer her stutter"--
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man voice...But the thought of starting high school is only making his stutter worse. And Melvin's growing awareness that racism is everywhere, not just in the South where a boy his age has been brutally killed by two white men, but also in his own hometown of Spokane is making him realize that he can't mutely stand by"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Marlin, a stutterer, can talk smoothly and freely with the jungle animals that populate his father's zoo in South America--until a mysterious man-eating black jaguar that his father catches and brings back home talks back"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Matt Baker is the best all-rounder on his baseball team, but can he help Big Ben Roberson improve his hitting and stand up to his father?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to? Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing. I wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me. And I can't say them all . . . When a boy who stutters feels isolated, alone, and incapable of communicating in the way he'd like, it takes a kindly father and a walk by the river...
12) Sadie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"A riveting tour de force" -- Kirkus (Starred Review) "Summers has pulled no punches when it comes to diving into the darker side of teen lives." Bustle"Sadie: a novel for readers of any age, and a character as indelible as a scar. Flat-out dazzling."--A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window. Read this gripping novel about the depth of a sister's love with an ending you won't be able to stop talking about. A missing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Get to know American Girl's 2017 Girl of the Year, Gabriela, in this first book in her series! Gabby loves expressing herself--especially in the dance studio--but lately, poetry is becoming her art form of choice, and for good reason: Gabby struggles with stuttering, and spoken word poetry helps her speech flow more freely. Still, compared to how confident she feels on the dance floor, speaking up can be scary. When the city threatens to close her...
14) Copyboy
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Newspaper copyboy Victor Vollmer sets out from Memphis to spread the ashes of Mr. Spiro, his friend and mentor, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and with the help of new friend Philomene he may meet the challenge.
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 2
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer--but her parents have other plans for her"--
16) Wildoak
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Maggie Stephens’s stutter makes school especially hard. She will do almost anything to avoid speaking in class or calling attention to herself. So when her unsympathetic father threatens to send her away for so-called “treatment,” she reluctantly agrees to her mother’s intervention plan: a few weeks in the fresh air of Wildoak Forest, visiting a grandfather she hardly knows. It is there, in an extraordinary twist of fate, that she encounters...
17) Greenhorn
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A young Holocaust survivor arrives in 1946 at a New York yeshiva where he will study and live. His only possession is a small box that he never lets out of his sight. Daniel, the young survivor, rarely talks, but the narrator, a stutterer who bears the taunts of the other boys, comes to consider Daniel his friend"--Provided by publisher.
"In Anna Olswanger’s Greenhorn, a young Holocaust survivor arrives at a New York yeshiva in 1946 where he will...
18) Lucky stars
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Music entwines Kira, a thirteen-year-old singer who hates that her father makes her perform for money on New York City subway platforms; Eugene, the class clown; and Jake, who longs to sing and to approach Kira, but feels held back by his stuttering.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request