Rickshaw girl /
Mitali Perkins ; illustrated by Jamie Hogan.
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2008, c2007.
- 91 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Wilson's Children, October 2007 School Library Journal, April 2007 Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008 Horn Book Starred, October 2007 Booklist, November 2006 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), May 2007 Kirkus Review, December 2006 Library Media Connection, April 2007 Multicultural Review, December 2007
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.
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Painting--Fiction. Sex role--Fiction. Rickshaws--Fiction. Family life--Bangladesh--Fiction.