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Six Steps to the Stage

Six Steps to the Stage

Paperback

General Parenting

ISBN13: 9798296213181
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 2 2025
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the sky falls, can dance lift you back up?

Inspired by The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith, this novel reimagines the emotional journey through poverty and hope-but through the eyes of a daughter instead of a son, with a struggling dancer mother instead of a businessman father. Told from the perspective of eleven-year-old Olerato, Six Steps to the Stage is a raw, emotional journey through homelessness, heartbreak, and the healing power of performance.

But more than that, it is a story that dares to ask: what does a homeless person really need? Is it always a home, a job, or a handout? Or could it be something far more overlooked-something as simple and as complicated as love?

From dark street corners to the bright lights of a national dance competition, this moving story reveals how even shattered dreams can find their rhythm again. It is a reminder that love-even when it hurts-might be the most essential thing of all.

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