Katerina is starting the seventh grade. She’s a confident girl but there one thing that she’s insecure about. Katerina stutters her S’s. Her neighbor Paul is not any help in the manner. He’s been teasing her since she was little. The only thing that gets her mind off of it is rowing through the wetlands with her grandfather and sighting birds. But once her grandfather threatens to kill her favorite bird she must use her voice in the community and take a stand. She overcomes her fear of stuttering in public with the help of an unexpected friend.
Tor Seidler does an excellent job at giving hope to those who stutter in his novel The Silent Spillbills. This book will inspire leadership in even the shyest students. They will be encouraged to overcome the fears of public speaking. They will learn to speak their mind in the most public spaces. It encourages students not to focus on how their voice sounds but more on what their thoughts are saying. Many people suffer from many types of stuttering. This can be used to introduce the topic of stuttering and speech disabilities.
Seidler, Tor. The Silent Spillbills. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1998.
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