stuttering

High school senior Lazarus Weathers wants out of the run-down trailer park where he lives with his mother and brother. When he receives an invitation to move in with a well-off family and pitch for a high-profile high school baseball team on the other side of town, it's his chance to impress major-league scouts and maybe become a professional baseball player. But it also means leaving his family behind. As his brother gets sucked into the trailer park's drug world, Laz has to choose between being a star pitcher and being there for his family.

Gabby wants to make sixth grade the best year ever, but she's worried about Sixth Grade Initiation-pranks older kids play on the sixth graders. Gabby could stop the tradition if she wins the school election, but fears her chances are slim. Can she find the courage to speak out for change?.

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.

When a child has a "bad speech day" at school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

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.

When a child has a "bad speech day" at school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering.

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.

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.

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.