A Few Bicycles More, Christina Uss
A Few Bicycles More, Christina Uss
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A Few Bicycles More

Author: Christina Uss

Narrator: Jennifer Barnhart

Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2022


Synopsis

In the sequel to the popular Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle, our hero reunites with her long-lost family and attempts a daring vehicular rescue.
 
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 her cycling self.

About The Author

Christina Uss's first novel, The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle, was selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List, Maine Student Book Award list, Vermont's Dorothy Canfield Fisher list and was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. It received starred reviews from Shelf Awareness, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews and Publisher's Weekly. Her second novel, The Colossus of Roads, received three starred reviews. Christina lives in East Longmeadow MA.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cecily on January 25, 2024

A great sequel to A Girl Called Bicycle! I loved the plot and story. A really good book for 9 to 12 year old kids. I loved the characters and their personality. I also really loved how all of the characters changed throughout the book.......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on November 28, 2022

Thank goodness Christina Uss has given us a follow up to “Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle” to answer two extremely important questions: 1) How did she end up on the steps of the Mostly Silent Monastery and is her family still around somewhere? and 2) Is Bicycle done with adventuring? This 2nd in......more

Goodreads review by Amelia on January 10, 2023

A very sweet sequel to a fantastic novel. Bicycle has returned safe and sound to the Mostly Silent Nunnery and feels a little adventured out after her trek across the United States. But when her trusty bicycle begins acting up, she remembers that sometimes adventures find you. In following what she......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on February 14, 2023

Fans of The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle will be delighted to see this sequel and the return of Bicycle and her trusty bike, Wheels of Fortune 713-J, that took her all over the countryside and helped her make friends along the way. Having returned to the Mostly Silent Monastery, the monks, an......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on January 15, 2024

Wow. This sequel to The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle was amazing. I was expecting more of a cross-country adventure, similar to the first, but ended up being pleasantly over-surprised about how it turned out. The first part of the story had me bawling my eyes out, feeling so terrible for Sist......more