From expert storyteller An Na comes the Printz Award-winning book in regards to a Korean woman who tells her firsthand account of trying to find her place and identity in the us from the day she leaves Korea as a kid to her rocky journey through the teenage years.

At age four, Adolescent Ju moves with her parents from Korea to Southern California. She has always imagined America would be like heaven: easy, blissful, and filled with riches. But when her family members arrives, she finds it to become the opposite. With a about A Step From Heaven persistent language hurdle and social dissimilarities, it’s not only impossible to create friends, but actually her family’s inner bonds are wavering. Her parents’ finances are strained, yet her father’s abdomen is filled with booze.

As Teen Ju’s once sound and reliable family members starts tearing aside, her younger sibling begins to gain more freedom and respect simply because of his gender. Young Ju begins to lose all hope in the wish she once held-the heaven she dreams about. Even while she starts to finally easily fit into, a cataclysmic family members event will change her idea of heaven permanently. But it also helps her to recognize the strength she keeps, and envision the near future she wishes, and deserves.