# Books like Small Steps

**10** books similar to *Small Steps* by Peg Kehret (Children's · grades 4–10), matched on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level. Every pick is grade-appropriate (a reading-level match, not just a topical one) and links to where it is assigned in US schools.

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## Similar books

- [Catherine, Called Birdy](https://readinglist.school/book/catherine-called-birdy) by Karen Cushman _(Grades 4–9)_ — Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–9).
- [Chicken Sunday](https://readinglist.school/book/chicken-sunday) by Patricia Polacco _(Grades K–5)_ — Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (K–5).
- [Franklin Delano Roosevelt](https://readinglist.school/book/eleanor-roosevelt) by Russell Freedman _(Grades 4–10)_ — Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–10).
- [Home Place](https://readinglist.school/book/home-place) by Crescent Dragonwagon _(Grades K–5)_ — Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (K–5).
- [Kids at Work](https://readinglist.school/book/kids-at-work-lewis-hine-and-the-crusade-against-child-labor) by Russell Freedman _(Grades 4–10)_ — Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–10).
- [Martha Graham](https://readinglist.school/book/martha-graham-a-dancers-life) by Russell Freedman _(Grades 4–10)_ — Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–10).
- [Old Elm Speaks](https://readinglist.school/book/old-elm-speaks-tree-poems) by Kristine O'Connell George _(Grades K–5)_ — Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (K–5).
- [Rules of the Road #1](https://readinglist.school/book/rules-of-the-road) by Joan Bauer _(Grades 4–9)_ — Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–9).
- [Stones in Water](https://readinglist.school/book/stones-in-water) by Donna Jo Napoli _(Grades 4–9)_ — Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–9).
- [Terror at the Zoo](https://readinglist.school/book/terror-at-the-zoo) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 3–6)_ — Is by Peg Kehret, the same author, overlapping grades (3–6), and the same era (1990s).

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