# Up the Down Staircase

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- Book: [Up the Down Staircase](https://www.bookquiver.com/bel-kaufman/up-the-down-staircase) ([Up the Down Staircase.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bel-kaufman/up-the-down-staircase.md))
- Authors: [Bel Kaufman](https://www.bookquiver.com/bel-kaufman)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-05-2556-565-9
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2019-04-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack...