where did the book small steps take place
Austin, Texas
title: Small Steps (novel) text: Small Steps (novel) Small Steps is a 2006 novel for young adults by Louis Sachar, first published by Delacorte Books (Dell). It is a spinoff and the sequel to "Holes", although the main character of "Holes", Stanley Yelnats, is only briefly and indirectly mentioned. Two years after his release from Camp Green Lake, Theodore "Armpit" Johnson is living in Austin, Texas trying to build a stable lifestyle by digging deep holes and caring for his neighbor Ginny McDonald, a ten-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. While working at the mayor's home, he is approached by Rex "X-Ray" Washburn, one of his title: Book of Steps text: Book of Steps The Book of Steps (, "Kṯāḇâ ḏ-Masqāṯâ"; also known by the Latin name "Liber Graduum") is an anonymous Syriac treatise on spiritual direction, probably written in the late fourth century AD (or possibly early fifth century). The author appears to be living in the Persian Empire, perhaps somewhere near the Lesser Zab, as it is mentioned in Memra Thirty, and addresses the author's own Christian community. The "Book of Steps" is divided into thirty chapters, or "discourses" (, "mêmrê"). The first discourse, and subsequent ones (especially number 14), divides the community into two groups. One group is title: The Thirty-Nine Steps text: plaque, was sent to Buchan. The mysterious phrase "Thirty-Nine Steps", first mentioned by the character Franklin Scudder, becomes the title of the novel and the solution to its meaning is a thread that runs through the whole story. The novel is set during May and June 1914; war was evident in Europe, Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia to begin a new life. One night he is buttonholed by a stranger, a well-travelled American, who claims to be in fear for his title: Mayflower Steps text: Mayflower Steps The Mayflower Steps are close to the site in the Barbican area of Plymouth, south-west England, from which the Pilgrim Fathers are believed to have finally left England aboard the "Mayflower" on 6 September 1620, before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to settle in North America. The traditional site of their disembarkation in North America is Plymouth Rock. The passengers who came predominantly from East Anglia sought religious and other freedoms. They had no links with Plymouth, but because of bad weather in the English Channel they were forced to put in at Plymouth seeking shelter and essential repairs. title: Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio text: she is moved back to the Sheltering Arms hospital where she rooms with four other girls who have polio, Dorothy, Shirley, Alice and Renee, who later become her friends. The story takes place in Peg's school, Peg's house, at the Sheltering Arms, and at the University Hospital beginning in 1949. "Small Steps" won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, the Golden Kite Award in 1997 and the Mark Twain Readers Award in 1997. Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio is a memoir of author Peg Kehret's childhood experience of polio. The