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Kehret, Peg

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio

205 pp. | Whitman | October, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-8075-7459-7 $15.95
New ed. (1996)

(2) 4-6 Juvenile mystery author Kehret relates, simply and directly, the story of her bout at age twelve with infantile paralysis. Diagnosed with polio, she was quarantined and taken to a hospital, and later to a rehabilitation center. Kehret's story is family-centered and heartwarming in a way that seems both old-fashioned and refreshing. This tenth-anniversary edition includes an epilogue and additional photos. Reading list.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 1997