Small Steps (Bloomsbury Educational Editions)

Small Steps (Bloomsbury Educational Editions)

by Louis Sachar (Author), Louis Sachar (Author)

Synopsis

A brilliant companion volume to the mega-bestselling Holes. Armpit and X-Ray are living in Austin, Texas. It is three years since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre and Armpit is taking small steps to turn his life around. He is working for a landscape gardener because he is good at digging holes, he is going to school and he is enjoying his first proper romance, but is he going to be able to stay out of trouble when there is so much building up against him?

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Format: flexibound
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Published:

ISBN 10: 0713678860
ISBN 13: 9780713678864
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Book Overview: Fantastic NEW range of fiction for the classroom, which cover a range of genres to meet the KS3 English Framework objectives. Text selected by experts to meet national curriculum requirements FREE downloadable teacher's support material for Y7-9 available on our website, including introductions, glossarys of key words, full schemes of work, lesson plans and photocopiable worksheets. Written by experts in the educational field. Durable PLC hardback format. Fantastic value for money. The eagerly-awaited companion volume to the bestselling, award-winning Holes. Holes was voted as one of the BBX Big Read's top 100 books. Reviews for Holes: 'one of the best books of the last ten years' Books for Keeps; 'This is an extraordinary and unconventional novel' The Observer.

Media Reviews
Louis Sachar is magic to the toughest circle of critics: librarians, children's booksellers, teachers - and, most of all, kids. - USA Today Sachar's touch is as deft as ever and the book is a page-turner. - Detroit Free-Press Mr. Sachar's gentle but surefire approach nails down challenging issues such as racism, teen romance and drugs. - Dallas Morning News Sachar has a talent for creating realistic relationships between unlikely friends. Although that's a staple device of children's literature, it often works by drawing on cliches. Sachar's characters, though, are never stereotypes, but always vividly alive. - Los Angeles Times His prose is clear and relaxed, and funny in a low-key, observant way. - New York Times Part of what makes Small Steps so believable and appealing is that its characters do have insecurities, and they aren't ashamed to let them show. - BookPage Sachar is a master storyteller who creates memorable characters. - School Library Journal Cleverly wrought...heartwarming, witty and suspenseful. - Time Out New York Kids Praise for Louis Sachar's Holes : A dazzling blend of social commentary, tall tale and magic realism. - Publishers Weekly (starred review) A brilliant achievement. -School Library Journal A smart jigsaw puzzle of a novel. - The New York Times Imaginative plotting and memorable characters make this novel a winner. - Book Magazine From the Hardcover edition.
Author Bio
Louis Sachar has published many children's books in the USA and Holes was his first book to be published in the UK. Holes has won major American literary prizes including the Newbery and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature