02279cam a2200385 i 4500 1165071738 TxAuBib 20230823120000.0 230405s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781338825091 hc. 1338825097 hc. (OCoLC)1375009212 NjBwBT eng rda FMG FMG OCLCQ YDX BDX AZH CHILD IK2 RNL SSF JAS VP@ BKL UtOrBLW TxAuBib rda Gupta, Ruchira, author. I kick and I fly / Ruchira Gupta. First edition. New York : Scholastic Press, 2023. ℗2023. 336 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "On the outskirts of the red-light area in Bihar, India, Heera is living on borrowed time until the day her father decides to sell her into the sex trade to repay his loans. It is, as she's been told, the fate of all women in Girls Bazaar to end up there. But what if she can learn to fight back against 'fate'? When a local hostel owner presents her with the opportunity to practice kung fu, Heera begins to learn that her body isn't an object to be preyed upon, but a vessel through which she can protect herself. She will face unimaginable barriers -- expulsion from school, the unapologetic forces of nature, and a local trafficker who won't take his sights off her. But fate can change, and heroics are contagious. As Heera starts to piece together the whereabouts of a missing friend through a pen pal in the United States, and a competition takes her to New York, the desire to ensure her friend's survival might just lead her to make the ultimate risk" -- Page 2 of cover. 20230823. Teenage girls India Fiction. Child trafficking India Fiction. Kung fu Fiction. Debt Fiction. Families Fiction. Prostitution Fiction. Youth hostels India Fiction. Bihar (India) Fiction. TXKIP