Climbing the Stairs cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level 4.8
Points 7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 50158
Points per Word 0.00014
Page Count 247
Points per Page 0.02834

Description

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.