Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
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1996 Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction
1997 ALA Notable Books for Children
1997 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers
1997 Pen Center USA West Literary Award
1998 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award (Vermont)
1998-1999 Mark Twain Award (Missouri)
1998 Joan Fassler Memorial Book Award
1998-1999 Texas Bluebonnet Award, Runner-Up
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In a riveting story of courage and hope, Peg Kehret writes about months spent in a hospital when she was twelve, first struggling to survive a severe case of polio, then slowly learning to walk again.
Peg Kehret was stricken with polio when she was twelve years old. At first paralyzed and terrified, she fought her way to recovery, aided by doctors and therapists, a loving family, supportive roommates fighting their own battles with the disease, and plenty of grit and luck. With the humor and suspense that are her trademarks, acclaimed author Peg Kehret vividly recreates the true story of her year of heartbreak and triumph.
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Rated 5 starsHas A Place In My Heart
I read this book as a young girl and it had a huge effect on me. I still think about it to this day. It’s a fantastic and inspiring book. I highly recommend it.
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Rated 5 starsKristies Review for Small Steps
Kristie Loftus 12/6/04 Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Peg Kehret 0807574589 Have you ever thought of what it would be like one day, waking up, feeling completely fine, and then you have a muscle spasm, and you find out later that you have a disease that can severely hurt you, or even kill you? In the book, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, Peg comes to find that she has three different types of polio. She started off...
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Rated 5 starsStepping into friendships
Small steps: The Year I Got Polio is an extraordinary book by Peg Kehret. This non-fiction book tells the true story of Pegs struggle to overcome polio. Suddenly at age twelve Peg is paralyzed from the neck down. With the wide spread rumors of what polio is Peg starts out with little hope to survive, let alone to overcome this disease. After the diagnosis is confirmed Peg is brought to a hospital over one hundred miles away...
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Rated 5 starsSteps
A Review by ErikaCan you imagine being a young child in the hospital unable to move any part of your body? This happened to Peg after she got a disease called Polio. Peg was put in an intensive care unit at the nearest hospital and soon moved to another hospital for more intensive treatment. Peg was trapped inside a machine they refer to as the Iron Lung. After a few months she was released from that hospital only to go back...
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