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Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
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Juvenile Fiction, Rehabilitation, Fiction, Singers, Interpersonal relations, People with disabilities, Juvenile delinquents, African Americans, Cerebral palsy, Juvenile fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Large type books, Children's fiction, Juvenile delinquency, fiction, Cerebral palsy, fiction, People with disabilities, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, African americans, fiction, Musicians, fiction, Problem children, fiction, Youth, fiction, Texas, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Problem youth, Artists, fictionShowing 4 featured editions. View all 21 editions?
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Small steps
2006, Delacorte Press, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
in English
0385733143 9780385733144
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690 Lexile.
Ages 10 & up.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.2 7.0 102722.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
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Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believes in him is Ginny, his 10-year old disabled neighbor. Together, they are learning to take small steps. And he seems to be on the right path, until X-Ray, a buddy from Camp Green Lake, comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme. This leads to a chance encounter with teen pop sensation, Kaira DeLeon, and suddenly his life spins out of control, with only one thing for certain. He'll never be the same again.In his first major novel since Holes, critically acclaimed novelist Louis Sachar uses his signature wit combined with a unique blend of adventure and deeply felt characters to explore issues of race, the nature of celebrity, the invisible connections that determine a person's life, and what it takes to stay on course. Doing the right thing is never a wrong choice--but a small step in the right direction.
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