Product Description: "I collect words. I keep them in a box in my mind. I'd like to keep them in a real box, something pretty, maybe a shoe box covered with flowered wrapping paper. Whenever I wanted, I'd open the box and pick up the papers, reading and feeling the words all at once...read more

Reluctant to play football because he stutters, Billy Joe's first game discloses that he has no reason to fear ridicule.

Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. When Edgar's father dies suddenly, Claude insinuates himself into the life of the farm—and into Edgar's mother's affections.Grief-stricken and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his father's death, but his plan backfires—spectacularly. Forced to flee into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm, Edgar comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him. But his need to face his father's murderer and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs turn Edgar ever homeward.David Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes—the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain—create a riveting family saga, a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, and a compulsively readable modern classic.

Product Description: A Greenwich Village teen finds new meaning in jazz and poetry as he struggles with the earth-shattering loss of his older brother in this acclaimed novel's paperback debut.Amid the sparkle and hum of a New York City winter, Jed and his best friend, Flyer, are filming a documentary about their neighborhood...read more

When Baj, a child with special needs who lives on the planet Aular, is given a magical communication kit, he begins to understand the complex rules of the social world and wants to be able to thrive without the enchanted gadgets.

In a comical but reassuring story that offers an undersea look at a common childhood problem, Oscar the crab runs away after being teased by his classmates for getting tongue-twisted whenever he gets excited.

All his classmates make fun of Rodney because he can't pronounce his name, but it is Rodney's speech impediment that drives away the class bully.

Product Description: Rattlesnake Farming takes place at Christmastime in contemporary Santa Fe at the home of the rattlesnake farmer who hypothesizes that rattlesnake venom contains an antidote to Christianity. A novel about original sin and redemption, a family saga, realistic and magical, this is a remarkable novel, at once hilarious and serious, (The New Mexican) an absorbing and unusual work by a writer of extensive abilities and elaborate imagination...read more

Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem

When Dora Cookson, a young girl who has never been able to talk, receives an operation that allows her to speak, her trip with her family across the American wilderness becomes an extraordinary journey full of sound, in an inspiring story based on true historical events.

Fourth grader Robert Morris Reynolds, who cannot say his name properly because he has trouble pronouncing his Rs, works hard with a speech therapist to overcome his problem.

Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem

When four-year-old Molly, who has Down syndrome, learns to talk with her hands, she suffers fewer frustrations by being able to ask for what she wants.

A charmingly illustrated story tells of a boy whose unruly relationship with words forces him to learn instead the language of nature, which allows him to communicate with flowers and ants but not with the little girl next door.

The vicar's speech impediment leads to holy hysteria in an otherwise quiet country parish

One of the legendary storyteller's last projects, written for The Dyslexia Institute, portrays the hilarious plight of the Vicar of Nibbleswicke when a strain of his childhood disorder returns and he begins to thank Dog and praise the Drol.

The babbling inhabitants of Erg, who consider slow-speaking Silvester to be mute because they never give him a chance to talk, find that they are also mistaken about the mountain monster they believe to be so fierce.

Nine-year-old Dora, who has been kept out of school because of her speech impediment, dreams of learning to speak normally as her family joins a group of other Mormons journeying from Utah to New Mexico in 1910.

Paralyzed into silence whenever he has to speak to anyone he doesn't know very well, twelve-year-old Luke is forced to face his fears in order to protect a passing stranger from rabies.

A younger boy with a speech impediment grows more introverted after his parents' divorce

Robbie overcomes his speech problem with the help of a skillful teacher, hard work, and the discovery that he is not alone.

Raymond, who can't pronounce his E, S, and Z sounds must call his sister Lithabeth, while Elizabeth, who can't say her R's, must call him Waymond.