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.