The spunky heroine of the title is 11 years old and wants to buy a bicycle in order to race Abdullah, a young boy in the neighborhood.

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Stretching the analogy (perhaps to the breaking point): On a recent weekend I competed in a bicycle time-trial race of 3.35 miles, straight up the side of a mountain.

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