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1) Paperboy
Author
Pub. Date
2013
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.
2) Sadie
Author
Language
English
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Description
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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"--
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
When they are left with relatives while their father goes prospecting for gold in the Colorado mountains, ten-year-old Hattie and her older brother depend on their friendship with a recluse who lives nearby to make their lives bearable.
10) Golden arm
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
11) Copyboy
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
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.
13) Say it out loud
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Self-conscious of her stutter, Charlotte says nothing as her best friend is bullied, but as the school year goes on she realizes some things are worth speaking up for.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Andrea is devastated when her parents announce that the family's moving to Scotland for a year-long teacher exchange program, but as she makes new friends, joins a soccer team, and her stutter improves, life doesn't seem so bad.
15) Batting order
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Billy Plimpton wants to be a famous comedian when he grows up but his stutter is getting in the way, and right now he is so worried about being made fun of by the kids in his new school that he plans on not talking at all, but the plan backfires because his persistent silence only draws attention of the school bully--and Billy realizes that he needs another plan, one that does not depend on him speaking without a stutter.
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha graphic novel volume 2
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Longing to be part of the summer stock performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, Jacky Hart must discover if juggling responsibilities is one of her many talents.
18) The boy toy
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A woman ready to give up on love discovers that age is truly just a number in this heartwarming and steamy new romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Nicola Marsh. For almost a decade, successful thirty-seven-year-old Samira Broderick has used her bustling Los Angeles practice as an excuse to avoid a trip home to Australia. She still resents her meddling Indian mother for arranging her marriage to a man who didn't stick around when the going...