Small Steps by Davis Young

This book is fiction. The reason I chose this book is because I really liked the first book Holes and thought that it was going to be just like it and it was. I also thought it was a very good book.

What this book is about is that it follows the life of Armpit after he is released from Camp Greenlake. He is living in Austin, Texas and X-Ray comes to him with a business propisition for the pop singer that is coming to town and the way X-Ray wants him is to get money fast by buying tickets and then selling them for a higher price. Then when everything is going good X-Ray's plan backfires an the police get involved. When Armpit hears about this he tries stay calm because he does not want to go back to jail. Also he goes to go the concert but when the security guard gets him he finds out X-Ray gave him counterfeit tickets which starts the whole thing with the police.

The signifacance of the title is that Armpit would like to just take small steps but then X-Ray comes and wants him to take big steps and in the end Armpit learns and takes small steps.

Some questions that I have for Louis Sachar is

1. Why did Armpit choose to do what X-Ray told him to? I would ask him this because it isn't clear in the book.
2. Why didn't X-Ray have his own job to get his own money? I would ask him this because he asked Armpit for the money to buy the tickets.
3. Why did Armpit work for a landscapeing company? I would ask him this because wouldn't he tired of digging.