Born to Ride: A Story About Bicycle Face
by Larissa Theule (Author) and Kelsey Garrity-Riley (Illustrator)
Booktalk: During the women’s suffrage movement, one girl sets out to prove that she can do everything the boys can do. Louise Belinda Bellflower lives in Rochester, New York, in 1896. She spends her days playing with her brother, Joe. But Joe gets to ride a bicycle, and Louise Belinda doesn’t. In fact, Joe issues a solemn warning: If girls ride bikes, their faces will get so scrunched up, eyes bulging from the effort of balancing, that they’ll get stuck that way FOREVER! Louise Belinda is appalled by this nonsense, so she strikes out to discover the truth about this so-called “bicycle face.”
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