Peg Kehret

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio is a memoir of author Peg Kehret's childhood experience of polio. The book won the Golden Kite Award. In September 1949, Peg collapses at school. She goes home with a high fever and around midnight, she starts to vomit. Her parents take to the hospital where she is diagnosed with …

Thirteen-year-old Sunny runs away from her current foster parent in search of her twin sister, from whom she was separated ten years earlier. On the way, she'll face a tornado, bullies, and a stray dog- and the fact that her sister may not be who Sunny hoped she would be.