Rickshaw Girl, Mitali Perkins
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Rickshaw Girl

Author: Mitali Perkins

Narrator: Zehra Naqvi

Unabridged: 1 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 03/06/2018

Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - People & Places - Asia

Synopsis

This acclaimed, award-winning novel by Mitali Perkins will soon be a movie!

Naima is a talented painter of traditional alpana patterns, which Bangladeshi women and girls paint on their houses for special celebrations. But Naima is not satisfied just painting alpana. She wants to help earn money for her family, like her best friend, Saleem, does for his family. When Naima's rash effort to help puts her family deeper in debt, she draws on her resourceful nature and her talents to bravely save the day.

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