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1) My bike
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Tom tells all about his bicycle, his ride to work past trucks, cars, and even elephants, and his work as a circus performer.
2) Ben rides on
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Ben rides his new bicycle the very, very long way to school but Adrian Underbite, perhaps the world's largest third-grader, takes the bike anyway and later, when Ben finds Adrian in trouble, he must decide whether or not to help the larcenous bully.
3) Bikes
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Lexile measure
20L
Language
English
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"In Bikes, emergent readers learn about bikes and how they're used as a mode of transportation. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once."--Provided by publisher.
4) My bike
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
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A simple introduction to riding a bike.
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English
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With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience, and relative affordability of the bicycle. The earliest two-wheeler, the draisine, arrived in Philadelphia in 1819 and astonished onlookers with the possibility of propelling themselves "like lightning."...
6) Biking
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Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
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"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to biking. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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Duck books (Lynne Berry) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Five little ducks ride bicycles and gather apples to make a sweet treat.
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English
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Interest in bicycling is growing rapidly, with worldwide industry sales up 10 to 25% per year over the past decade. There are currently 450 million bicycles owned in the US, with over 60 million adult riders. Interest in commuting (gas prices), health and fitness (boomers retiring), and environmental concerns (zero emissions) are converging to make bicycling a subject area of continued high growth. This book is designed as an introduction to bicycling,...
9) Cycle City
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English
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Little Etta the elephant visits her aunt's house in Cycle City, where everybody rides a bicycle, and the streets are crowded with many unique bikes that are waiting for the parade to begin.
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Lexile measure
1160L
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English
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Explains how bikes work, why bikes matter (especially today, when gas is expensive and interest in green living is high), and how readers--whatever their level of experience--can indulge their tastes for mountain trails, competitive racing, city exploration, and just basic transportation from point A to point B.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Today if you visit Amsterdam, you'll see bikes everywhere - they rule the road! But that wasn't always the case. Fifty years ago, Amsterdam was so crowded with vehicles that bicyclists could hardly move. But moms and kids relied on their bikes to get from place to place in the city. What were they to do? Women like Maartje Rutten and her friends led protests against the unsafe streets, and one day a whole swarm of women and children took over the...
12) Together we ride
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English
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Told in rhyming text, a young African American girl learns to ride a bike, with the help of her father.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Learning how to ride a bike is a big moment in a child's life. In this engaging title, readers will learn that safety is a big part of riding a bike. It's something that has to be practiced at all times! Readers are introduced to fundamental safety concepts, such as wearing a helmet and getting back up when you fall. With accessible text and an ATOS reading level between 0.50.9, this text is a perfect choice for beginning readers. Colorful photographs,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
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Description
Everyone says that Crooked Hill has a curse. But it's the only good place to go mountain biking in Flatte County. When Jonah's brother goes down it during a storm, can Jonah beat the Crooked Hill curse?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Lunzi and Huangche were made in the same bicycle factory and remained close in a shop, but when Huangche is purchased before Lunzi, she races through Beijing seeking her friend. Includes glossary of Mandarin Chinese terms and descriptions of the places visited.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
310L
Language
English
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Description
"In From Metal to Bicycle, early fluent readers learn how a bicycle is made, from producing steel from metal to workers welding the frame. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this item gets to be the bike they ride for fun. An infographic illustrates the cycle with real photos and descriptions. Children can learn more about bicycles using our safe search engine that provides relevant,...
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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“Equal parts critical manifesto and tender mini-memoir about a boy and his bikes” from Eben Weiss, blogger and author of The Enlightened Cyclist (GQ).
Cycling is exploding in a good way. Urbanites everywhere, from ironic hipsters to earth-conscious commuters, are taking to the bike like aquatic mammals to water. BikeSnobNYC—cycling’s most prolific, well-known, hilarious, and anonymous...
Cycling is exploding in a good way. Urbanites everywhere, from ironic hipsters to earth-conscious commuters, are taking to the bike like aquatic mammals to water. BikeSnobNYC—cycling’s most prolific, well-known, hilarious, and anonymous...
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English
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German Baron Karl von Drais first introduced the two-wheeled tandem human-powered wooden-framed vehicle to the world, in the summer of 1817, its rider gamely steering with the front wheel while pushing along with his feet. After that history is rather vague about the bicycle. We know that the mechanically powered velocipede took off in the 1860s, soon followed by the Penny Farthing, but it wasn't, until the late nineteenth century that the golden...
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