The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle
The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle

Author: Christina Uss

Publisher: Holiday House

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0823441083

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A determined 12-year-old girl bikes across the country in this quirky and charming debut middle grade novel. Introverted Bicycle has lived most of her life at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. When her guardian, Sister Wanda, announces that Bicycle is going to attend a camp where she will learn to make friends, Bicycle says no way and sets off on her bike for San Francisco to meet her idol, a famous cyclist, certain he will be her first true friend. Who knew that a ghost would haunt her handlebars and that she would have to contend with bike-hating dogs, a bike-loving horse, bike-crushing pigs, and a mysterious lady dressed in black. Over the uphills and downhills of her journey, Bicycle discovers that friends are not such a bad thing to have after all, and that a dozen cookies really can solve most problems.

The Girls' Bicycle Handbook
The Girls' Bicycle Handbook

Author: Caz Nicklin

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 2014-03-27

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1782067213

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The Girls' Bicycle Handbook is for women cyclists everywhere who need practical no-nonsense advice and information on cycling, and cycling in style. Whether you're a committed bike commuter or a complete novice, cycling entrepreneur and blogger Caz Nicklin gives the low-down on making cycling part of your lifestyle. From choosing the right bike for your needs to looking stylish and comfortable whatever the weather, and from combatting 'helmet hair' to road safety and fast repairs, The Girls' Bicycle Handbook tells you everything you need to know about life on two wheels.

The Island of Bicycle Dancers
The Island of Bicycle Dancers

Author: Jiro Adachi

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780312312466

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This is the coming-of-age story of twenty-year old Yurika Song, a Korean-Japanese woman who comes from Japan to New York City for a summer to work with her Korean relatives and improve her English. Yurika's friends back home have always joked that she is half-sushi/half kim-chi. But cross-Asian ethnicities turn out to be far less jarring than her entree into New York life in the guise of bicycle messengers and the street culture in which they thrive. On one level this is a tale of mistaken love--Yurika falls hard for an attractive, but dangerous, Puerto Rican bicycle messenger nicknamed "Bone." But on another, deeper level, our heroine finds freedom in this new language, which to her "is like a huge octopus, very clever and sometimes hard to catch."

Everything is Pickrick
Everything is Pickrick

Author: Bob Short

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780865546622

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This is the story of the man who vowed to chase Martin Luther King, Jr. from the state, who was notorious for carrying a pickax handle, who supported George Wallace for president, and who was a lifelong thorn in the side of Jimmy Carter."--BOOK JACKET.

The Bicycle — Towards a Global History
The Bicycle — Towards a Global History

Author: P. Smethurst

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-05-22

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1137499516

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This is the first history of the bicycle to trace not only the technical background to its invention, but also to contrast its social and cultural impact in different parts of the world, and assess its future as a continuing global phenomenon.