Spring 2025

Faiza Is a Fighter

  • Interest Level: Grade 4 - Grade 8
  • Reading Level: Grade 4

Faiza wants to win the biggest boxing tournament in town. When the odds are stacked against her, will she be able to achieve her dream without the presence of her biggest supporter?

Life in hilly northern India is not easy. Every day, Faiza has to scale the mountains to reach her school or to fetch water from the stream. Faiza doesn’t have many friends or relatives who believe in her, but her dream of being a world champion boxer and the support of her only parent, her dad, and her grandma keeps her going.

When her dad’s travel is delayed due to a landslide, she has to enter the boxing tournament without her coach and support system. Will she give up or forge out on her own? Sometimes your biggest cheerleader is the voice inside of you. Fight, Faiza, fight!

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Interest Level Grade 4 - Grade 8
Reading Level Grade 4
Genre Graphic Novels
Category SEL: A Self-Awareness, SEL: B Self-Management, SEL: E Responsible Decision-Making, Social Emotional Learning
Copyright 2025
Publisher Soaring Kite Books
Imprint Soaring Kite Books
Language English
Number of Pages 72
Publication Date 2025-05-06
Text Type Fiction
BISACS JUV008000, JUV032070, JUV014000
Dimensions 8 x 11
Guided Reading Level TBD
Features Author/Illustrator biography and Original artwork

Author, Illustrator: Debasmita Dasgupta

Debasmita Dasgupta is an internationally-published graphic novelist and Kirkus Best Prize-nominated illustrator. As an art-for-change advocate, she’s worked with global nonprofits and has illustrated picture books, comics, and poems.