Small Steps by: Louis Sachar

What would you do if you had an opportunity to double your money? Well in the book Small Steps by Louis Sachar, Theodore Johnson has the decision to either don't take this opportunity or gamble his money on this concert and hope that it is successful. Theodore had just been released from Camp Green Lake three months ago. He spent fourteen months in a dried up lake bed, where he did nothing except dig holes. Since Theodore was released he had already made eight hundred and fifty seven dollars. Theodor finally got his life was back on track.
The author Louis Sachar has a really good way of painting pictures in your head because he uses a lot of words that describe that describe what is going on. Like in one case when Theodor gave the mayor a hand shake Louis said, “Afraid of his own strength, Armpit tried not to grip the elderly woman’s hand too hard, and was a little taken by the firmness of her handshake”. Also Louis Sachar is also the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Holes. The book Holes is when Theodor was still at Camp Green Lake. Then Small Steps talks about his life after he gets out of the camp.
There are three morals of Small Steps one of them is that if you are a bad person you can change. An example is that if you're a bully and you get in trouble that you have a choice to either become nicer or keep getting in trouble. The other moral is that no matter what you can always get your life back on track. For example if you sell drugs and you get busted by cops that when you get out jail you can get your life back on track. The last moral is that when you help someone good things happen and it makes you feel good. An example is when Theodor took Ginny too the concert.
Small Steps is mostly a love story with a pinch of action and hummer. The mode of literature is Irony because in the beginning it talks about why Theodor was sent to Camp Green Lake. Then in the end of the book someone dies. This book teaches you something about life and when something bad happens, it can turn into something really good like when Ginny and Theodor are at the concert they get busted for having counterfeit tickets but then they get to see the concert from backstage. Theodor’s life is still on track and he hopes to keep it that way.