Twelve-year-old Maggie's stutter causes her much heartache and only her menagerie of pets, whom she can speak with fluidly, provide her comfort, but when she finds Rumpus, an abandoned snow leopard, in a forest in Cornwall, their chance encounter will change their lives forever.

Ages 8-12. Scholastic Press.|||Grades 4-6. Scholastic Press.|||juvenile

by C.C. Harrington ; drawings by Diana Sudyka.