The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle
Selected for the 2019-2020 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
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.
A Junior Library Guild selection!
Book At A Glance
# of Pages: 320
Book Binding: Hardcover
Year of Publication: 2018
Publisher: Margaret Ferguson Books
Language: en
ISBN: 9780823440078
Creator Bio
Christina Uss is an award-winning author and journalist with a passion for storytelling. She grew up in a small town in New Hampshire, where she spent her childhood riding her bike and exploring the great outdoors. After studying English and journalism in college, she worked as a newspaper reporter before transitioning to writing books for children. In addition to The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle, she has also written several short stories and articles for various publications. Christina currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family and can often be found riding her bike through the city streets, searching for new adventures and inspiration for her writing.
