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My book that I read is called SMALL STEPS. The author's name is Louis Sachar. Armpit is the main character, he is big, strong, tall, and he is trying to change his life after going to Camp Green Lake. In this story Armpit is trying to change his life by becoming a better man, but bad things happen along the way. In the beginning of the story X-ray asked Armpit for six hundred dollars so he can buy some concert tickets and sell them for more money to some people on the streets. Armpit was going to take his ten year-old neighbor Ginny to the concert, so he made a copy of them to give to Armpit.
When Armpit and Ginny got to the concert they sat in their seats but
Then, cops came and said the tickets that they had were fake, then Armpit took the tickets back. The cop thought he was attacking so they fought back. In the same time Ginny was having a seizure so the cops brought them into the back room then they met the famous rock star Kaira DeLeon. Armpit and Ginny got to go back stage and hang out with Kaira.
Later on in the story Armpit went to San Francisco. Armpit met Kaira DeLeon in the hotel lobby then went to China Town. They sat down but then Armpit and Kaira got in a big fight, and Kaira dumped her coffee all over him. When Armpit got back to the hotel he wrote a letter to Kaira saying sorry, but at the same time in Kaira's room her manager grabbed a bat starting to attack her and hit her in the throat, back, and the head. Her manager turned around and saw Kaira's body guard jumping on him. They fell to the ground but her manager stabbed Kaira's body guard in the stomach with a knife. When Armpit came to the door to deliver the letter, Kaira pulled the lamp cord and the lamp crashed. Armpit came in the room and the manager swung at him, hit his arm with the bat, and broke it. Armpit beat up the manager, and every one recovered from the attack
The story mainly took place at Ginny and Armpit's house. I liked the story because you never know what is going to happen. In my opinion I don't think Armpit changed his life much after going to Camp Green Lake. His life really didn't get much better. Bad things still happened to him. Some of the bad things were spending the 600 dollars for the tickets, getting arrested for counterfeit tickets, and the big fight in the hotel at San Francisco.
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Small Steps
By Louis Sachar
Small Steps is the sequence to "Holes". There are four main characters; Theodore or Armpit, X-Ray, Ginny, and Kaira DeLeon. Armpit is the star of the book. Armpit just got out from Camp Green Lake and is now back at home in Texas. Because he did not want to go back to jail, he is saving his money, going back to school, and watching his actions. X-Ray is Armpit's friend from Camp Green Lake. Ginny is Armpit's 10 year old neighbor with Cerebral Palsy. She is one of his best friends. Kaira DeLeon is a famous pop star on tour.
The plot of this story is about a young man (Armpit) recovering from his actions and starting a new life when an old buddy of his comes around. His buddy offers money. The deal is they buy tickets to Kaira DeLeon's concert and re-sell them for more money. The catch is they have to use Armpit's saved money. He agrees. When uses two of the tickets, he finds out that his friend gave him copied tickets. The security guards come. While they are arresting him, Ginny has a seizure. Armpit helps Ginny until the seizure passes. Kaira sees all of this, stops the arrest, and invites the two to sit on stage. Armpit and Kaira Deleon fall in love.
The setting of this book is Austin, Texas. Towards the end of the book the setting becomes Los Angeles.
The theme or message in Small Steps is about making smart choices and living with the consequences when they are not so smart. It also has to do fresh starts and trying to make this chance better than the last one.
I really enjoyed this book because I love books with action or trauma. I also enjoyed the first book Holes and I always wondered what happened to X-ray and Armpit after they left Camp Green Lake. I recommend you read Holes before you read Small Steps.
Too many "holes" in this novel
Small Steps, as a philosophy offers great hope, and the way it applies to Armpit's life, is a fine premise, but the novel itself was a disappointment, and bears little resemblence to Sachar's writing in Holes. In fact, Small Steps suffers from so many flaws in plot and character, it would be better if this novel took the title, Holes. Lacking in Small Steps is the complexity of story lines, the weaving of genres and various threads of plot, as well as developed characters immersed in a fictional, yet consistently believable world-- all key points which made the Newbery Medal winning Holes so wonderful. Sachar's sense of humor, and his comic timing created the perfect counterpoint to the desperate situation in which Stanley and Zero found themselves.
Small Steps lacks these aspects. The relationship between Armpit and Ginny is the only redeeming, and engaging part. Ginny's honesty and sense of humor refresh the otherwise stale story. Yet, after awhile her sweet, candid observations wear a little thin. Her 10 year old wisdom and insight don't ring quite true. Armpit's compassion and patience for Ginny are impressive, but miss every once in awhile on credibility. At the end of a long hard day of digging trenches or bushes in his rich clients' yards, I'm thinking he'd find Ginny's perspective on stuffed animals just a tad cloying.
Other tears in the fictional fabric: The pop star Kaira doesn't know Janis Joplin, or The Beatles, yet she knows that beatnik poets once hung out in the little coffee shops of San Francisco, sharing their verse. The strange manager, step-father EL Genius plans a heinous crime which he intends to commit himself, rather than hire some nameless thug. The Mayor of Austin hangs out at a teeny-bopper's concert and just happens to recognize Armpit, as one of her landscaper's hired hands, when his face is pressed to the ground and he's being hand-cuffed? Armpit's parents only presence in the story involves their frequent demand for a sample that will prove he's free of drugs? Come on! Too many holes.
Holes itself is near the top of my list of great reads for middle school students...and it's a long list...sorry to say, Small Steps wouldn't make the cut.
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