The bicycle girl Jyoti Kumari's amazing journey across India
It s early in the pandemic in India. The trains have been shut down to prevent contagion. For Jyoti, as for millions of migrant workers, getting home with her injured father will require enormous ingenuity and gumption. Follow the real-life story of a girl who desperate for her father to survive rod...
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| Language: | English |
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Somerville, Massachusetts :
Candlewick Press,
2026.
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| Summary: | It s early in the pandemic in India. The trains have been shut down to prevent contagion. For Jyoti, as for millions of migrant workers, getting home with her injured father will require enormous ingenuity and gumption. Follow the real-life story of a girl who desperate for her father to survive rode almost a thousand miles across India with him on the back of a hot-pink twenty-dollar bicycle. Her amazing story, relayed for a young audience by reporter Suhasini Raj and author Garen Thomas, is a portrait of an unassuming girl who made an extraordinary decision and became celebrated across India, breaking entrenched stereotypes of caste and gender. This story of love, determination, problem-solving, and a pink bicycle will speak to young people everywhere. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781536233605 1536233609 |
| Author Notes: | Suhasini Raj is a New Delhi-based reporter in the South Asia bureau of The New York Times. She has covered everything from the rise of Hindu nationalism under Prime Minister Narendra Modi to how India fared with COVID-19 to gender justice and climate change. In 2021, she and her colleagues won a Human Rights Press Award for a video revealing the plight of stateless Muslims in India. |
