‘A beautiful, big-hearted reserve with essential lessons embedded in compelling stories of two irresistible girls. Expertly executed and movingly realized.” -New York Instances Book Review

Cammie McGovern follows up her breakout teen adult debut, Claim What You Will, with this powerful and memorable book about learning from your mistakes and learning to forgive.

Emily has always been the kind of woman who tries to do the right thing-until one evening when she will the worst point possible. She about A Stage Toward Falling views Belinda, a classmate with developmental disabilities, getting attacked. Inexplicably, she will nothing at all.

Belinda, nevertheless, manages to save lots of herself. When their high school realizes what happened, Emily and Lucas, a soccer player who was simply also there that evening, are required to perform community support at a middle for handicapped people.

Shortly Lucas and Emily start to feel like maybe they’re starting to make a genuine difference. Like they might be able to perform the right factor, if they could do that night all over again. But can they do anything that will in actuality help the one person they harm probably the most?

Told in alternating points of look at, A Step Toward Falling is a poignant, hopeful, and altogether spectacular work which will appeal to fans of books by Jennifer Niven, Robyn Schneider, and Jandy Nelson.