Small Steps

Small Steps

By Louis Sachar

Published by Listening Library (audio), (2006)

Genre: Multiculturalism, friends and society, Body and self, accomplishment

Disclaimer: Violence

# of cd's: 5

Theordore, also known as Armpit, is trying to put his life in order. He remembers the advice given to him by a counselor, "take small steps", so Theodore has set some goals for his life (one of them is to get rid of the name armpit) and is taking small steps to reach them. He is friends with the little girl next door, named Ginny, that has cerebral palsy. His friend X-Ray show up and wants him to get involved in a scalper business and sell tickets for the Kaira DeLeon concert. Armpit ends up going to the concert with Ginny and through some unfortunate problems, he fortunately get to meet Kaira and they become friends. Throughout the book, armpit has to make choices that question his small steps and define how he has grown and what he has learned from his past mistakes. This is a sequal to the book Holes.

I loved Holes, I was really excited about this book. One of the things I found cool about it was how the author used Kaira's songs to help tell the story. I really liked how the book ended, usually don't like ending like that, but I like that it gave Armpit more opportunity to grow, and Kaira as well.

A play for Small Steps will premier this month in Oregon: This is a video with them working on the script and music for this play.

This video is actually from the movie Holes, inspired by the book. It makes me happy so I thought I would include it.