| A | B |
|---|
| author of Small Steps | Peg Kehret |
| Tommy | 8 years old, in iron lung |
| Dr. Bevis | nice doctor who painted Peg's toenails |
| Renee | Peg's roommate, 12, dark hair, learning to walk |
| Dorothy | Peg's roommate, 14, wheelchair, cheerful and shy |
| Shirley | Peg's roommate, 14, arms that only straightened 1/2 way, could only sit up for short time, breathing problems |
| Alice | Peg's roommate, 13, had been at Sheltering Arms 10 years, ward of state |
| University of Minnesota | Peg in oxygen tent, met Tommy and Dr. Bevis here |
| Sheltering Arms | this is where Peg had roommates, and relearned how to walk |
| OT (occupational therapy) | picked up marbles with her toes, and learned how to play the accordion |
| iron lung | performs task of breathing for polio patients |
| Silver | Peg's name for her wheelchair |
| homecoming parade | Peg gets sick the night before this |
| twitching muscle in her left leg | 1st sign of Peg's polio |
| 7th grade float | won 2nd place |
| chocolate milkshake | might have saved Peg's life by bringing her fever down |
| three kinds of polio, Peg has all three | bulbar, respiratory, spinal |
| Lone Ranger | Tommy and Peg listen to this on radio |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | president who had polio |
| Mrs. Crab | physical therapist, not nice to Peg |
| Sister Kenny treatments | hot packs and stretching excercises |
| torture time | what Peg calls her physical therapy sessions with Mrs. Crab |
| BJ | Peg's dog |
| Art | Peg's brother, a student at Carlton College |
| Miss Ballard | physical therapist, optimistic outlook, nicer than Mrs. Crab |
| knock knock jokes | Peg does these for Tommy and Dr. Bevis |
| hula | Peg falls while trying to do this |
| walking sticks | must be exactly the right height for the patient |
| Peg likes these better than hot packs | hot bathes |
| Christmas pagent | Peg played Mary in this and walked on her own for the first time |
| Peg's childhood toys and books | what is donated to the Sheltering Arms children's ward, that upsets Peg? |
| Birds of North America | Peg balances this on her head as she relearns how to walk |
| room 202 | Peg's room at Sheltering Arms |
| 7 months | how long Peg was gone from school due to polio |
| post-polio syndrome | when the symptoms of polio returns later in life, this happened to Peg, Dorothy, and Renee |
