bicycles

"Go behind the scenes and learn how craftsman Aaron Dykstra makes one-of-a-kind bicycles by hand with this nonfiction book that ... [has] photographs and illustrations about his process"--Provided by publisher.

"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs show early fluent readers some of the physics principles that make bicycles work as they do. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--.

Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in posession of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.

Two young girls take a bicycle ride through the forest where they find a cafe to have tea and coffee, a bakery to enjoy a snack, and a hotel where they join in a concert with forest animals.

Afraid of his new mountain bike, third-grader Marvin finds himself in a desperate situation when he accepts a challenge to ride down Suicide Hill.

Because his toy monkey Pippo keeps falling off the back of his bike, Tom envies Stephanie for having a big new bike with a passenger seat on the back.

Tells the story of a BMX bike race. Who will win?.

"A refugee boy's determination to ride a bicycle leads to an unexpected friendship"--Amazon.

This is the story of seven thousand bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished. Touching on immigration and globalization, as well as the history of the US-Mexico border, this book is at once an immersive investigation of an outrageous occurrence and a true-crime, rags-to-riches story.

Simple text and pictures of different forms of transportation, such as boats, trains, buses, skates, etc.