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Title	:	Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
Author	:	Peg Kehret
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 205 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2006 by Albert Whitman & Company (first published January 1st 1996)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Childrens. Middle Grade. Biography Memoir

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio

Peg Kehret

Hardcover | Pages: 205 pages

Rating: 4.42 | 5551 Users | 799 Reviews

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What a beautiful story! My grandmother was born in 1901 and had polio as a young teen (we think that's the right age). Her father was a doctor and had heard about some unorthodox treatments that were being done for polio victims and tried them on her. They involved heat and massage, so I am now assuming these were the Sister Kenny treatments that the author referred to. My grandmother made a full recovery. I'm fascinated that my great grandfather found out about these treatments so early and used them (they were started in 1903 in Australia and didn't come to the U.S. until 1940). I would love to learn more about my great grandfather and what he did exactly, but I guess I'll never know. I'm thankful to have read Peg Kehret's account and get a little glimpse into what polio must have been like for my grandmother. As an aside about the book, one of the things I love the best are the pictures and the update at the end about the friends she made along the way. She brings it all to life so clearly that you long to know how it all turns out.

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Original Title:	Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
ISBN:	0807574597 (ISBN13: 9780807574591)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Minnesota(United States)
Literary Awards:	Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (1998), Bluestem Book Award Nominee (2015)

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1:17:13I am currently reading this awesome good book. This book is about a 12 year old girl who got three types of Polio. She had to race to the hospital because it was serious. I once had to go to the hospital because I pnemonia. I was only in Kindergarten. In the story she said she had to move to a different hospital because the first hospital could not handle this really bad sickness. At first she could not breathe by herself so she had to use an iron lung. In the book she said that when you

Author Peg Kehret's autobiography of her experience with polio in 1949-1950. It's amazing how much still resonates--the "nice lady" therapists who say it's okay that I'm hurting you because it will help you vs. the kind, helpful therapists who push without hurting, the world is still not set up for people with disabilities to move around independently, etc. It's amazing how horrible her early experiences were, with nurses and doctors who talked around her and ignored her needs and hurt her, and

This is the perfect example of why I love the Oregon Battle of the Books program. Prior to this year's selections, I'd never heard of Peg Kehret. In flipping through her extensive bibliography, I wouldn't be surprised if I had read at least one of her books when I was a kid. However, she was a new name to me this year, and she has two books on the list. I read Escaping The Giant Wave first, and it was a fantastic adventure story set in Oregon, so that was great. Then I read Small Steps, and I

What a beautiful story! My grandmother was born in 1901 and had polio as a young teen (we think that's the right age). Her father was a doctor and had heard about some unorthodox treatments that were being done for polio victims and tried them on her. They involved heat and massage, so I am now assuming these were the Sister Kenny treatments that the author referred to. My grandmother made a full recovery. I'm fascinated that my great grandfather found out about these treatments so early and

"P-O-L-I-O" Those were the words that Peg and her parents never expected. I don't think you can expect it to.It all started one afternoon when Peg was noticing a hot fever (103 degress) and muscle cramps. When she went to the doctor, they assumed that she had the flu. The fever contiued for a couple of days. When she woke up the next morning, she was paralyzed! The doctor took Peg to the hospital. There, they diagnosed her with polio, but not just one, three types, bulbar, spinal, and

Kids have been telling me this was their favorite book for years so I finally picked it up and read it. I was not disappointed--it was a wonderful and inspiration story, but not too sappy. She describes her feelings very realistically and she's not always nice about it!

Very quick read, sweet little story...it is exactly what it is.