pop star

I would love to travel everywhere and sing. The one thing I don't want is fans that trample me and follow me everywhere I go. I know that even though you have a lot of money you don't have a fabulous life. There are to many things to handle and that's another reason I might not want to be a singer. One of the biggest reasons I would is because I would be doing something I love.

Themes

Friendship- When Armpit became friends with Ginny and he took care of her as if she was a little sister. Also the fact that he took her to a concert and Kaira felt bad for so she also took care of her like a sister.

Anger- When Armpit got home from the concert and X-Ray asked him how it went and Armpit picked him up from the collar and through him against the wall be cause he copies the tickets and got in trouble for it.

Love- When Theodare and Tatiana liked each other and Theodore wanted to take Tatiana to the concert. Also when Kaira DeLeon and Armpit met each other and fell in love.

book review

Small Steps
Louis Sachar
Reviewed by Tori Lynch
(out of 5)



If you like music, action and some drama this is the great book for you. Small steps is about a boy named Theodore. He went to a juvenile attention facility called Camp Green Lake. Once he got out he wanted to turn his life around but his friend x-ray is making it so he can't do it. One of the biggest reasons is because x- ray wants money to buy Kaira DeLeon concert tickets so he can be a ticket scalper. So when he buys the tickets he can't sell the last two so Theodore wants to take his neighbor Ginny. When they are at the concert Ginny has a seizure and the cops come over and check their tickets. What Theodore doesn't know is that X- Ray had copied the tickets and the cops got into a fight with Theodore. When they went to the hospital at the concert they met Kaira DeLeon.


This is an enjoyable book if you like singers like Janis Joplin. I enjoyed this book a lot because of the music. I could also enjoy it because of the drama. It's not over dramatic but it's dramatic in a funny way. I like everything about this book and not in a bad way but I think this would make a better movie than holes did. I think this just because it has a really good message. So does holes but this one seems like it would be funny and have a message that most middle school students will understand. Which brings me to tell you who I would recommend this book to.


I would recommend this book to boys and girls of the middle grade level. I do this because of some information that might not be understandable. I think they would enjoy it because it is an exciting book. I like normally don't like books like this but this was an exception. And even though this book has a lot of the same characters as holes by Louis Sachar you don't have to read holes to understand this book.

Kaira's lyric's

"...these jewels, these shoes, this dress A perfect picture of success. No one would ever guess, I'm but a Damsel in Distress." I chose these lyrics because people always wish that they were movie stars or singers because they have great clothes, shoes, jewels and the whole fabulous life but with all that comes stuff that it not so pretty and can really ruin someone's life but people only think that they have it good and forget everything else.

Questions for Kaira DeLeon!!!

1. How long do you want to be doing the career you are in?
2. What do you like most about being a singer?
3. What is your favorite thing to do in your spare time?
4. Why did you become a singer?
5. When did you decide you wanted to be a singer?

Thoedores trip to the Police Office

In one of the parts in the book Small Steps Theodore goes to the police station to see X-Ray being questioned for selling fake tickets. First, Theodore got picked up by a police car and asked the police man if he could sit in the front seat so people would not think he was getting arrested. When he got to the police station he went to a room where Detective Newberg ( the women on the case) and a big box of pizza. Detective Newberg told him to sit in a chair, eat some pizza and just watch her question X-Ray. I could tell that when Theodore realized it was X-Ray that he was really scared. in the middle of being questioned, Detective Newberg told told X-Ray that there was a specilitst was on the other side of the 2-sided mirror watching the interviw. X-Ray waved and Theodore waved back at him but he knew X-Ray could not see him. At the end of the questioning X-Ray was let out with no charges and Theodore had lost his appetite.

Fave Character

My favorite character is Kaira. The reason is that I can understand how she feels easily even though I can't relate to her. I feel bad for her and I would love to be friends with her because we could talk about stuff with each other and understand what they mean. She could teach me stuff about love and being a singer and I could teach her stuff about what it's like to be in the 6th grade this year.