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A Few Bicycles More is the exciting sequel to Christina Uss’s Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle. Bicycle has been back from her cross-country adventure with her robot-like bike, named Fortune, for just a month when it starts malfunctioning, insisting that they pedal away from their home in Washington D.C. to Harpers Ferry in West Virginia. Once there, they discover a scrapyard where bicycles are being crushed and recycled—and it appears they are too late to save them.
Bicycle and Fortune head to a convenience store so Bicycle can drown her sorrows with a chocolate bar. Much to her astonishment, she meets her long-lost family there. Bicycle learns that they have been looking for her since she disappeared as a toddler and that she is a quintuplet. She is happy to go live with them except for one thing: her family doesn’t share her passion for cycling. In fact, her sisters have never even ridden a bike.
Then Fortune acts up again, leading Bicycle back to the scrapyard where she discovers that there are four bicycles left and they were all made by the same inventor who created her Fortune. Four seems too coincidental to ignore—the perfect number to bring her sisters up to speed. She sets a plan in motion to rescue the bikes, a plan that if it works will help her fit into her family and still stay true to cycling self.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
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Release date
November 22, 2022 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780823454020
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780823454020
- File size: 1560 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 5.4
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 4
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Reviews
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August 15, 2022
Revelations, rescues, and family issues challenge 12-year-old Bicycle and her unusually gifted wheels. Only a month after the life-changing cross-country spin detailed in The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle (2018), a chance encounter leads to new exploits for the pedal-pushing preteen--starting with the stunning discovery that she is one of a set of identical quintuplets. Having been misplaced years before and raised as a solitary foundling by clerics of the Mostly Silent Monastery and the Nearly Silent Nunnery, Bicycle (or, now, Euphemia) finds herself struggling with family life, particularly as her mom, already overprotective in the wake of losing one child, has turned even more helicopter-y. This becomes a problem when Bicycle's beloved bike, Wheels of Fortune 713-J, which has enough features to give high-tech a whole new dimension, announces that four kindred two-wheelers developed by the same maverick inventor are about to be scrapped and need rescuing now. Fortunately, Bicycle's sibs turn out to be kindred (if stifled) spirits who are used to working as a team, so the stage is set for a bumpy, exhilarating race against time and, ultimately, a liberating journey. Uss again assembles a cast of terrifically engaging human characters, mostly defaulting to White. Others are just as distinctly individual despite getting about on wheels or even, in the case of an enigmatic but surprisingly helpful tuxedo cat, paws. A heady rush of girl power paced by the delights both of biking and bringing out the best in oneself and others. (Fiction. 9-12)COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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