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*EPUB$ I Kick and I Fly [PDF EBOOK EPUB KINDLE]*EPUB$ I Kick and IFly [PDF EBOOKEPUB KINDLE]Description"In I Kick and I Fly, Ruchira Gupta has given young readers an irresistible story, and also one thatcould save lives. This book is a gift." -- Gloria SteinemA propulsive social justice adventure byrenowned activist and award-winning documentarian Ruchira Gupta, I Kick and I Fly is aninspiring, hopeful story of triumph about a girl in Bihar, India, who escapes being sold into the sextrade when a local hostel owner helps her to understand the value of her body through kung fu.Onthe outskirts of the Red Light District in Bihar, India, fourteen-year-old Heera is living on borrowedtime 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 hercousin, Mira Di, live this life day in and day out is hard enough. To live it feels like the worst fateimaginable. And after a run-in with a bully leads to her expulsion from school, it feels closer thanever.But when a local hostel owner shows up at Heera's home with the money to repay herfamily's debt, Heera begins to learn that fate can change. Destiny can be disrupted. Heroics canbe contagious.It's at the local hostel for at risk girls that Heera is given a transformativeopportunity: learning kung fu with the other girls. Through the practice of martial arts, she starts tounderstand that her body isn't a an object to be commodified and preyed upon, but a vesselthrough which she can protect herself and those around her. And when Heera discovers thewhereabouts of her missing friend, Rosy, through a kung fu pen pal in the US, she makes thedecision to embark on a daring rescue mission to New York in an attempt to save her.Atriumphant, shocking account inspired by Ruchira Gupta's experience making the Emmy-awardwinning documentary, The Selling of Innocents, this is an unforgettable story of overcomingadversity by a life-long activist who has dedicated her life to creating a world where no child isbought or sold.
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