Small steps : the year I got polio / Peg Kehret.
Kehret, Peg.; Albert Whitman & Company, publisher.
1996
RC180 .K44 1996 (Mapit)
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Title Small steps : the year I got polio / Peg Kehret.
Author Kehret, Peg.
ISBN 9780807574584 (paperback)
0807574589 (paperback)
9780807574577
0807574570
9780613286459 (Topeka binding)
0613286456 (Topeka binding)
Imprint Morton Grove, Ill. : Albert Whitman, 1996 (Printed in the United States of America)
Language English
Description 179 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Call Number RC180 .K44 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.1/96835/0092
Summary The author describes her battle against polio when she was thirteen and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.
Note "The design is by Scott Piehl"--Title page verso.
Awards American Library Association Notable Children's Book 1997
Added Corporate Author Albert Whitman & Company, publisher.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Prologue
Diagnosis
Paralyzed from the neck down
Oxygen tent and a chocolate milkshake
"You can't burn my bear!"
Hot packs
Torture time
Star patient surprises everyone
Roommates
Sunday visitors
Happy thirteenth birthday
Dancing the hula, popping a wheelie
Disappointing trip
Great accordion concert
Good-bye, silver; hello, sticks
Plans for a pageant
Present for Dr. Bevis
Back to school
Epilogue
Special thanks.

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