num_pages: 32
description: 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. Set against the backdrop of the women's suffrage movement Born to Ride is the story of one girl's courageous quest to prove that she can do everything the boys can do while capturing the universal freedom and accomplishment children experience when riding a bike. 
language: English
title: Born to Ride: A Story About Bicycle Face
publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers