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Small Steps (Paperback)

by Louis Sachar (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (2 Jul 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747583455
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747583455
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,442 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Has Sachar's familar ease, intelligence, humour, suspense and humanity.' Sunday Times 'Readers of the first novel will not be disappointed as the story is as compelling as the first #133;. sure to entrance readers.' Bookseller Children's Buyers Guide 'A pacy adventure, which leaves you cheering Armpit all the way to the finish line.' Good Book Guide 'Has a lot to recommend it - funny dialogue, a fast-moving story, some emotive scenes, an interesting central character.' Guardian

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'Small Steps has Sachar's familiar ease, intelligent humour, suspense and humanity' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Catch up with Armpit and X-Ray, 10 Mar 2006
By Tealady2000 (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Small Steps (Hardcover)
I wrote a review of this a couple of weeks ago but for some reason it has never appeared. Fingers crossed this time...

This book is a sequel to the brilliant 'Holes' and follows two of the Camp Green Lake in-mates, Armpit and X-Ray, as they try to make it in the outside world. Armpit is trying to earn an honest living but he is soon drawn into X-Ray's latest scam, touting tickets for teenage singing sensation Kaira DeLeon. This leads to plenty of adventures, an unlikely romance and some uncomfortable brushes with the law. I'm not going to comment on the plot because I am much too old to be in the target audience for this book - the important thing is that my 12-year old son thought is was 'brilliant'. What I really enjoyed was the way Louis Sachar gives you a view of the world from a different angle, in this case through the eyes of black kids. I can't tell if the view is accurate because I am neither black nor young but it's just the fact that he tries that's refreshing.

I could only give this book 4 stars because it's not as good as 'Holes' - but what could be?

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Really great read - highly recommended!, 7 Jan 2007
By M. Fisher (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Small Steps (Hardcover)
As this book is the sequel to "Holes" I expected it to relate a lot more to the story. However, "Small Steps" is a completely new story involving one of the more minor characters from "Holes", meaing that it isn't at all necessary to have read that book first.
It's a great story that is very easy to read and get into and I found it hard to put down! It tells the story of Armpit, a young man attempting to put his life back together after serving a sentence at Camp Green Lake. However, his plans of taking small steps are thrown upside-down when he gets involved in ticket scalping and meets a famous and beautiful rock star...
Fantastic read for children or adults - I loved it!
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32 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Just as good as the brilliant original!, 15 April 2006
By Ryan - H.M.H. "Come & Go" (Birmingham England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Small Steps (Hardcover)
Another masterpiece by Louis Sachar, once again proving that she is an excellent author by describing things such as feeling, locations and people. The only ever-so-small problem I found with this book is that Louis Sachar takes out most of the characters from the original book and tells the story of two characters from the first book, this is really okay though because Louis describes the characters lives and personallities really well. You don't haft to read the first book 'Holes' to read this, but also as well as this I would reccomend 'Holes' to any young reader out there. I would reccomend this book to 12 - 16 year olds, since its to descriptive and complacated for young children and not for adults since there is no language or horror, also the main characters are 12 - 16 years old.

Remember Armpit and X-Ray from holes? The story is based on them. It is three years since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre and Armpit is taking small steps to turn his life around. He is working for a landscape gardener because he is good at digging holes, he is going to school and he is enjoying his first proper romance, but is he going to be able to stay out of trouble when there is so much building up against him, including X-Ray wanting him to be in his latist scam which is to tout tickets for teenage singing sensation Kaira DeLeon. This leads them into all types of mischief, including unfriendly brushes with the law.
When certain things happen to the boys, bad or good, Louis presents the text to us in a very reaistis touching way. Such as when Armpit experiences Romance, or when the him and X-Ray get caught by the police the author describes the moments of pain and happyness exceedingly well. In this book, you really can imagine the events happening and picture them in your own way, also you can compare the feeling and character descriptions to real life.

Storyline: 9/10
Description: 10/10
Dialogue: 10/10

Overall: 9.5/10
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5.0 out of 5 stars Louis Sachar - Small Steps
Brilliant book - not quite as good as Holes, but still great fun and both me and my 8 year old son loved it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Quirkygirl

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic American read so good, I found it hard to put down!
Small Steps... Wow! This was a total must-read. Following on from the amazing read 'Holes' I find this was a brilliant follow up. Read more
Published 4 months ago by S. Jones

5.0 out of 5 stars Small Steps
This book was purchased for my 12 year old son who had read 'Holes', he could not put it down and I enjoyed it too!
Published 5 months ago

4.0 out of 5 stars ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! too good
hi i am 11 years old and i read the book Holes and loved it t pieces. i haveseen the film ,loved it (not as much as the book !!!!!!) . Read more
Published 5 months ago

5.0 out of 5 stars Take a Small Step Into this Book
This book was great :-) If you have read Holes you will know some of the characters. My favourite characters were Armpit and X-Ray. Read more
Published 9 months ago by C. Harper

4.0 out of 5 stars Small steps for getting Armpit's life back on track...and small lessons in stereotypes
It's a year since I read 'Holes' so the characters Armpit and X-ray felt like they were almost new to me again. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Helen Simpson

5.0 out of 5 stars What a gem!
This is a great sequel to 'holes'. Thought-provoking with really good characterisation. It deals with important issues in a sensitive and gentle way. Read more
Published 20 months ago by bournetoread

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, taken by itself
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

I like the American setting, the thoughtful characters, the mult-facted storyline, and the careful exploration of sensitive topics... Read more
Published 20 months ago by T. WHITFIELD

5.0 out of 5 stars superb read
i really enjoyed reading this book. I thought it was even better than 'holes'. Its very witty and very cleverly written. Read more
Published 20 months ago by eamo

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality Book
This is one of the best books i've read, although some of the words are amercian and i dont no what they mean but the rest of it is amazing, i thought holes was good but this was... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Ross

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