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When the Stammer Came to Stay

Maggie O'Farrell

Illustrator: Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini

Ages: 6+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Walker Books/Candlewick Press

ISBN: 978-1-5362-3910-2

Keywords: Family/School/Community-Sisters, Family, Neighbors, Libraries, Librarians, Stuttering, Speech Disorders

When chatty, outgoing but disorganized Min suddenly develops a stutter, her quiet, organized sister Bea tries to help and learns something surprising about herself. Ink and watercolor illustrations.