01288cam a2200301 4500 59967090 TxAuBib 20100101120000.0 070604s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007021757 9780399247460 0399247467 DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Venkatraman, Padma. Climbing the stairs / Padma Venkatraman. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. 247 p. ; 22 cm. In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life. 012-017. 20100101. Young adult fiction. Family life India Fiction. Prejudices Fiction. Brain damage Fiction. India History British occupation, 1765-1947 Fiction. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007021757-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007021757-d.html Publisher description