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A 2024 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection

A 2024 ALA Rise: A Feminist Book Project Titles Selection

In I Kick and I Fly, Ruchira Gupta has given young readers an irresistible story, and also one that could save lives. This book is a gift. -- Gloria Steinem

A propulsive social justice adventure by renowned activist and award-winning documentarian Ruchira Gupta, I Kick and I Fly is an inspiring, hopeful story of triumph about a girl in Bihar, India, who escapes being sold into the sex trade when a local hostel owner helps her to understand the value of her body through kung fu.

On the outskirts of the Red Light District in Bihar, India, fourteen-year-old Heera is living on borrowed time until her father sells her into the sex trade to help feed their family and repay his loans. It is, as she''s been told, the fate of the women in her community to end up here. But watching her cousin, Mira

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      Publisher Scholastic US
      Published 18 April 2023
      ISBN-13 9781338825091
      978-1338825091
      ISBN-10 1338825097

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A 2024 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection

      A 2024 ALA Rise: A Feminist Book Project Titles Selection

      In I Kick and I Fly, Ruchira Gupta has given young readers an irresistible story, and also one that could save lives. This book is a gift. -- Gloria Steinem

      A propulsive social justice adventure by renowned activist and award-winning documentarian Ruchira Gupta, I Kick and I Fly is an inspiring, hopeful story of triumph about a girl in Bihar, India, who escapes being sold into the sex trade when a local hostel owner helps her to understand the value of her body through kung fu.

      On the outskirts of the Red Light District in Bihar, India, fourteen-year-old Heera is living on borrowed time until her father sells her into the sex trade to help feed their family and repay his loans. It is, as she''s been told, the fate of the women in her community to end up here. But watching her cousin, Mira

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