Katrin: Girls Do Do That

From the author of How Yoga Works, a delightful adventure tale of yoga and the ancient wisdom behind it. Friday is a young girl who lives in a tiny nomad village high in the Himalayan plains, a thousand years before our time. Yoga is just starting to reach Tibet from India, and is strictly forbidden for women. In fact, so are books-and learning to read or to write.

Friday's uncle Jampa is a quiet, wise Buddhist monk who gives classes to young monks who walk from the local monastery to his b...