Small Steps by Louis Sachar

People often have to face many obstacles in their lifetime. Armpit, the main character in the book Small Steps, especially does because of all of his relationships with his family, his friends and even himself. Armpit and X Ray, Armpit's friend, continue to try to sell Kaira DeLeon tickets because they assumed they would earn way more money than they had pent on the tickets. Because X Ray is very decieving to Armpit, he doesn't tell Armpit the whole story about the ticket sales. Four days before the concert, not one ticket has been sold. Eventually X Ray sells four tickets making about five hundred dollars. I thought that Armpit and X Ray would end up with nothing because nobody would buy them, but apparently I was wrong. While Armpit is stuck in this crisis about the tickets, he is assigned a project in school, in which he has to write an election speech for a stuffed animal to be president of the world. Armpit, being his manly self, does not own a single stuffed animal, so he goes and asks Ginny if he could borrow one. All of Ginny's stuffed animals have some type of disability, which I find interesting, on acount that Ginny has cerebral palsy. I assume that she created a disability for each animal so she could relate to them and talk to them. Ginny finally gives Armpit the perfect stuffed bunny-human creature whose name was Coo. Coo was a stuffed animal that Ginny had her entire life and it was very important to her. Armpit knew it would mean a lot if he had won the election in his speech class for the assignment. Ginny mentions how Coo is very strong and brave, so Armpit decides to write the speech about him. Armpit and Ginny have a strong relationship with each other that cannot be broken, no matter what happens.