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.