# Climbing the Stairs

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- Book: [Climbing the Stairs](https://www.bookquiver.com/padma-venkatraman/climbing-the-stairs) ([Climbing the Stairs.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/padma-venkatraman/climbing-the-stairs.md))
- Authors: [Padma Venkatraman](https://www.bookquiver.com/padma-venkatraman)
- Publisher: speak
- ISBN: 978-01-4241-490-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2010-02-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Read Padma Venkatraman's posts on the Penguin Blog. Fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of going to college— an unusual aspiration for a girl living in British occupied India during World War II. Then...