Climbing the Stairs

Title: Climbing the Stairs
Book List: Asian Voices in Teen Fiction, Teen Historical Fiction
Published by: Putnam
Release Date: 05/01/2008
Author: Venkatraman, Padma
Genre: Teen
Pages: 256
ISBN13: 9780399247460

During World War II and the last days of British occupation in India, fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of attending college. But when her forward-thinking father is beaten senseless by the British police, she is forced to live with her grandfather's large traditional family, where the women live apart from the men and are meant to be married off as soon as possible.

Vidya's only refuge becomes her grandfather's upstairs library, which is forbidden to women. There she meets Raman, a young man also living in the house who relishes her intellectual curiosity. But when Vidya's brother decides to fight with the hated British against the Nazis, and when Raman proposes marriage too soon, Vidya must question all she has believed in.

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