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"[A] lively, compelling book with some interesting things to say about racial stereotyping, disability and the search for identity....Small Steps offers humor, suspense, thoughtful themes and great characters..." Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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"Small Steps has a completely different tone than Holes....Yet, there is still much humor, social commentary, and a great deal of poignancy....Sachar is a master storyteller who creates memorable characters." School Library Journal

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"[The characters] are easy to identify with and impossible not to root for, even if the book they inhabit feels thinly imagined in comparison with its predecessor. It is likable and readable, but it never quite emerges from the shadow of Holes." A. O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review

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"Small Steps is firmly rooted in the grubby realities of urban life. But it does have Sachar's trademark humor, way with insightful relationships and deft hand with outrageous plots." Los Angeles Times
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"Review" by , "[A] lively, compelling book with some interesting things to say about racial stereotyping, disability and the search for identity....Small Steps offers humor, suspense, thoughtful themes and great characters..."
"Review" by , "Small Steps has a completely different tone than Holes....Yet, there is still much humor, social commentary, and a great deal of poignancy....Sachar is a master storyteller who creates memorable characters."
"Review" by , "[The characters] are easy to identify with and impossible not to root for, even if the book they inhabit feels thinly imagined in comparison with its predecessor. It is likable and readable, but it never quite emerges from the shadow of Holes."
"Review" by , "Small Steps is firmly rooted in the grubby realities of urban life. But it does have Sachar's trademark humor, way with insightful relationships and deft hand with outrageous plots."
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