One Step at a Time

by Deborah Kent

Tracy Newbury has a lot going on in her life. she has just started high school, she is beginning to train dogs for show competitions, and her sister is getting ready to audition for Julliard. Just... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590415808
• ISBN13: 9780590415804
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Good read about a kid with problems that is NOT maudlin

Tracy Newbury has a lot going on in her life. she has just started high school, she is beginning to train dogs for show competitions, and her sister is getting ready to audition for Julliard. Just when things are going so well, it all seems to fall apart. Tracy begins to have trouble adjusting to the size and gloomy atmosphere of her new school. Her best friend seems to be drifting into a new and less pleasant person to be around. Tracy's grades start to slip her performance in gym class is almost failing and to top it off her parents are convinced that a trip to the optometrist will prove to be a cure-all. As the novel progresses however, Tracy begins to suspect that there is something more seriously wrong with her eyes. Her efforts to conceal the problems she experiences only serve to make matters worse. The help she needs to face the diagnosis comes from an unexpected source, and with that she is able to face whatever the future has in store for her. Debbie Kent has written a good book that really works hard to illustrate the point that blindness is a part of who a person is but not the sum total. The problems that Tracy has with her eyes are one facet of the book and its main character. What the book takes pains to make sure we understand is that Tracy is also any teenage girl and going blind doesn't make her a 'Martian' even though that is how people start to treat her. It is a helpful look at how the differently-abled are not really so different.

A Great Book For All Ages!

I read this book manyyears ago when I was about 11. Although the book states, ages 11 - 13, my mother loved it as much as I did. I find myself lucky to own this wonderful, loving book about a girl who has to face the hardships of going blind at the tender years of teenage-hood. Although it may be out of print, I urge you to find it at your local library and read it or try and find it somewhere! I know there was a sequel written for it, but I can not find the name anywhere. I hope to someday find the sequel as I have been looking for over 11 years.