stuttering

The author, a stutterer, discusses his lifelong struggle to speak fluently, relating personal anecdotes about his fear of speaking out in class, his attempts to ask girls for a date, and his apprehension about reading to his children, and telling of the many therapies he tried to rid himself of the affliction.

Provides information and guidance on stuttering, discussing such topics as different types, triggers, and coping with the problem.

Scheduled to go to summer camp to work on his stuttering problem while his parents go off to the Arctic, Lewis surreptitiously steals back into his house where he lives a secret life for eight weeks, meeting a new friend who is camping in a nearby woods and who involves Lewis in acting and a new approach to his speech problem and to life.

In a brutal world where hunting and cannibalism are necessary for survival, something is going terribly wrong as even the globes on the roof of the world are fighting, but one young man, influenced by a beautiful and mysterious stranger, begins to envision new possibilities.

Cornelia, a high school student, is forced to confront the truth about herself and her mother after her mom runs off with a boyfriend, leaving her in the care of an eccentric aunt.

After discovering tainted water in the creek near his grandmother's cabin in the Kentucky hills, senior Roy Linden slowly uncovers a connection between his high school team's new star quarterback, his own football future, and the source of the pollution.

Katerina Farnsworth, self-conscious about her stuttering, learns to overcome her problems while trying to save a species of small brown, acrobatic birds that have inspired the development of Farnsworth Aeronautics's latest plane, but have also been accused of causing the crash of the prototype.

A second grader is so embarrassed about her stuttering that she almost misses a chance to have lunch with her favorite author who has come to speak at school.

In order to help a neglected dog which he sees at a junkyard, Ben, who stutters, begins to confront his fear of speaking.

Discusses the causes of the speech disorder, stuttering, explains how to cope in situations with family and friends as well as at school, and tells where to get help.