Rickshaw Girl

In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy or disguise herself as one. Bangladesh is a country in South Asia surrounded by India.

Related: Asia, Bangladesh, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction

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