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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson "Smithy" Ide is a loser. An overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk, Smithy's life becomes completely unhinged when he loses his parents and long-lost sister within the span of one week. Rolling down the driveway of his parents' house in Rhode Island on his old Raleigh bicycle to escape his grief, the emotionally bereft Smithy embarks on an epic, hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary...
2) Ventoux
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Language
English
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During the summer of 1982, a group of friends-five boys and one girl-travel to French Provence, three of whom climb the legendary Mont Ventoux on their bicycles. A tragic accident claims the life of one of them, the promising young poet, Peter. Thirty years later, the old friends return to conquer the mountain and the demons of their past. Ventoux is both a hilarious and insightful portrait of a generation and a stunningly accurate depiction of male...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes from a rural road in Vietnam and his girlfriend, an ER doctor trained in deductive reasoning, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they first met. Alexis and Austen met on a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but instead in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in Austen's arm....
5) I did it!
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Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A girl tries and tries again to learn to ride a bicycle and all her friends provide words of encouragement.
6) I can ride!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack is learning to ride a bike. The bike wobbles. The bike tips. Jack tries again and again. Dad tells him, "You can do it!" Will Jack ever become a bike rider?
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Team Hot Wheels is taking on a double loop challenge! Team Green and Team Blue are both trying to race around the Double Dare loop to see who can soar over a massive desert canyon first. Team Green's got the speed, but that isn't always enough to get the job done. Luckily, Team Blue has this tricky track totally figured out. And if these two teams can combine their skills, they'll both make it across this hair-raising jump!"--Information from Amazon.com....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Basketball has always come easily to twelve-year-old Devon Rosario of the Bronx, but it has been a long time since he actually enjoyed playing because Devon's father sees him as the family's second chance at basketball glory, and the pressure of that expectation is ruining the game for Devon; but then he sees Jamal, a Yemeni refugee, doing BMX tricks on his bike and suddenly Devon sees a way to put fun back into sports--provided he can keep his new...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The boy, Leo, treasures his bicycle so much he gives it a name--Big Red. But eventually Leo outgrows Big Red, and this is where the bicycle's story takes a turn from the everyday, because Leo decides to donate it to an organization that ships bicycles to Africa. Big Red is sent to Burkina Faso, in West Africa, where it finds a home with Alisetta, who uses it to gain quicker access to her family's sorghum field and to the market. Then, over time, it...
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Language
English
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Description
After a failed engagement and her mother's battle with cancer, Charlotte Carter's life is finally turning around now that she's landed a dream job teaching music. What she didn't see coming was the imminent closure of the school's music program. She's determined to save it, even if it means getting creative. There's no way she's chalking this up as just another failure in her book of recent embarrassments. Zach Bryant is back in town just long enough...
11) The magical yet
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Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
13) Marci's desire
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
As the new trend of bicycling sweeps the nation, the father of disgraced socialite Marci Winters sends her away to the area near Yellowstone National Park, where she falls for fellow bicycle enthusiast Lieutenant Myles Cade McDowell.
Series
Duck (David Shannon) volume 1
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The familiar story of The 3 Little Pigs is retold from the wolf's point of view. The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
In "A duck on a bike" from Sheep to Horse to Chicken to Goat ... everyone in the barnyard has something to say about Duck's zany idea. But what are they really thinking? And what will happen next?
In "Crictor", an affectionate and quick-thinking boa constrictor...