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A refugee boy's determination to ride a bicycle leads to an unexpected friendship.Joseph wants only one thing: to ride a bike. In the refugee camp where he lives, Joseph helps one of the older boys fix his bike, but he's too small to ride it.Joseph and his mother travel to America, where everything is strange and new. One day, he spots a red bike that seems just right for him! It belongs to a girl with a whoosh of curly hair. When Whoosh crashes her bike, Joseph offers to fix it. His big chance has finally come, except that Joseph doesn't know how to ride! He crashes a few times, picks himself up, and tries again, until suddenly, with a shout of triumph, he's riding the bike. Inspired by the author's interviews with refugee children from Sudan, this gentle story evokes the experience of a new immigrant.
About the Author
TERRY FARISH is an author of picture books and young adult novels, many influenced by her trip to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya and work with the American Red Cross in Vietnam. She wrote A Feast for Joseph in collaboration with South Sudanese musician and writer OD Bonny, a companion book to Joseph's Big Ride, both illustrated by Ken Daley. She wrote Either the Beginning or the End of the World, winner of the Maine Literary Award for young adult literature and a Boston Author's Club finalist award. Her novel is verse, The Good Braider is set in South Sudan and Portland, Maine. It was selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and winner of the Lupine Award from the Maine Library Association. Her picture book The Cat Who Liked Potato Soup, illustrated by Barry Root was a BCCB Blue Ribbon Winner. Terry has worked with Bhutanese-Nepali refugees to create a bilingual Nepali-English folktale, The Story of a Pumpkin. She was honored to be in on the visionary stage of the I'm Your Neighbor Books project to "build welcoming communities for New Arrivals and New Americans using children's literature." Farish lives in Maine.
