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Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
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Written by Peg Kehret, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (1996) is a middle-grade memoir that recounts the year the author first contracted polio. Kehret explains both the physical effects of the virus and the resilience and determination that allowed her to make a miraculous recovery. Small Steps has won several awards, including the Golden Kite Award (1996), the Pen Center USA West Literary Award (1997), the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award (1998), the Joan Fassler Memorial Book Award (1998), the Mark Twain Readers Award (1998-1999), and the Young Hoosier Book Award (2001).
The memoir is often used in school curricula to educate children on the effects of poliomyelitis and to provide an engaging work through which students can identify with a narrator their own age and engage with complex themes in accessible ways. Kehret provides a glimpse into life as a polio survivor within both hospital and rehabilitation settings throughout the epidemics of the 1940s; to this end, the memoir explores such as The Value of Connection in Recovery, Emotional Turmoil Throughout Recovery, and The Impact of Adversity on Unlock all 59 pages of this Study Guide Plus, gain access to 8,900+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
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