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Gr 1–3—Multiple themes twine through this salute to Jyoti Kumari, a teenager who loyally carried her injured pita (father) on a bicycle over 700 miles from Delhi to their home village of Sirhulli when 2020's COVID-19 lockdown closed India's train and bus systems. "It's a little hard, but not a lot," becomes Jyoti's mantra as she determinedly sets out on the journey with, the authors write, "the grit of a thousand hathis" (elephants) "inside her." Filling herself with the "aag" (fire) "of Kali...Log In or Sign Up to Read More