Kenny: A boy who plays in the Christmas pageant who helped Peg.Ballard: Peg's physical therapist at Sheltering Arms that Peg is very fond of and she is also very good friends with Peg's parents. Bevis: Peg's doctor at University Hospital. Art: Peg's older brother whom Dorothy adores.She gives her Torture Time: hot packs and stretching. Crab: Peg's physical therapist at University Hospital, whom Peg doesn't like. She is able to return home because her family builds her a ramp.
Dorothy: Sheltering Arms roommate, who longs to be in leg braces to go home.Her parents didn't want to take care of her because she was so badly crippled, and she became a ward of the state. Alice: Sheltering Arms roommate, who has been there for ten years.Shirley: Sheltering Arms roommate, who has the worst polio and likes marshmallows.Renee: Sheltering Arms roommate, who goes home for Christmas.Tommy: Peg's hospital roommate at University Hospital, in an iron lung.Peg: Main character and narrator of the story, diagnosed with polio.The book won the Golden Kite Award in 1997.
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio is a memoir of author Peg Kehret's childhood experience of polio. Golden Kite Award Mark Twain Readers Award Learn more by visiting Peg Kehret’s website: memoir by Peg Kehret Small Steps: The Year I Got Polioĭorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award This story documents her nine months in the hospital and her continuing road to recovery. Peg reads to him when she’s feeling better, and they listen to The Lone Ranger.Īfter she starts to recover, she is moved back to the Sheltering Arms hospital where she rooms with four other girls who have polio, Dorothy, Shirley, Alice and Renee. Her new room has a roommate named Tommy who is put into an iron lung. After a few days, she is allowed to move out of isolation but all of the things in her room are burned because they may contain the virus. Peg is placed under an oxygen tent to help her breathe a little easier.
She spends a little time at Sheltering Arms before she is transferred to University Hospital because she needs a respirator. Her parents take her to the hospital where she is diagnosed with three different kinds of polio. She goes home with a high fever, and around midnight, she starts to vomit. In September 1949, Peg collapses at her school in Minnesota. This is a story of strength and courage in the face of an uncertain future. Surviving the initial paralysis brought on by the illness, Peg then had to learn how to walk again. This 2016-2017 Oregon Battle of the Books selection tells the true story of Peg Kehret, who at age 12 contracted three different kinds of polio.
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