Where is the border between childhood and adolescence? What is a happy childhood? Does it happen without sadness and grief, resentment and disappointment, and at the same time without joy and hope for the future? And without various funny and absurd incidents, cheerful laughter, without which it is difficult to live in this world... The story “Three Steps from Childhood” is about all this, written on behalf of the heroine, a thirteen-year-old St. Petersburg girl Sasha. And of course, it’s about growing up, about how a mischievous, stubborn, cocky teenage girl gradually grows into a person with character who knows how to be responsible for her actions, and where necessary, to insist on her own. For middle school age.