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At their finest hours, bikes exist on a level above mere machines, and there's no reason the joy should end when the ride is over. Written by a working bicycle mechanic, this book cuts through the techno-speak and delivers maintenance clarity with a touch of humor and radicalism while categorically denying mechanics' supposed dreariness. Bicycle! is about encouraging society to learn for themselves how to make their bikes work, not because they have...
2) My bike
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
3) Bikes
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20L
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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.
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2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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1060L
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English
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Presents information about bicycles, including their history, their construction, how they are used for work and recreation, and how they are used to make a difference in the lives of people.
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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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480L
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English
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"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to biking. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
7) Bikes go!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Learning to ride a bike is an important part of growing up. Those first pedals down the sidewalk open up a new world on the wheels of a young reader's bike. This book puts beginning readers behind the handlebars of these machines and all the places they can go. From a trip to the park to a ride to school, bikes are the perfect way to travel the neighborhood. Young readers experience these joys through accessible text paired with vibrant full-color...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
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English
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In this unique nonfiction picture book, the main character is a bicycle that starts its life like so many bicycles in North America, being owned and ridden by a young boy. 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...
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Das Fahrradpendler-ABC
Auto, ÖPNV oder Fahrrad – wie kommen Pendler morgens zur Arbeit? Rund vier Millionen Menschen in Deutschland beantworten diese Frage mit: Am liebsten mit dem Fahrrad! Was für die Dänen und Niederländer mit ihrem gut ausgebauten Radwegenetz schon selbstverständlich ist, setzt sich auch bei uns immer mehr durch. Und das aus guten Gründen: E-Bike oder Fahrrad fahren ist umweltfreundlich, gesund und auf Strecken bis fünf...
11) Crunch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
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HL 490L
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English
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The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
12) Bear on a bike
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Bear uses a variety of vehicles to travel to destinations which include the seaside, a castle, and even outer space.
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This is an introductory guide for people who quite like the idea of getting on a bike. It does not tell you how to use a power meter, or what ratio of protein to carbs you have to eat after a grueling turbo session. It's just about bikes, and cycling, and fun, and leisure, and safety. It's a no-nonsense, down-to-earth look at bike rules and how to stay safe. Bicycle riders on public roads have the same rights and responsibilities as motorists, and...
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After Laura Everett's car died on the highway one rainy night, she made the utterly practical decision to start riding her bicycle to work through the streets of Boston. Seven years later, she's never looked back.
Holy Spokes tells the story of Everett's unlikely conversion to urban cycling. As she pedaled her way into a new way of life, Everett discovered that her year-round bicycle commuting wasn't just benefiting her body, her wallet, and her...
16) On Silver Wings
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Kristin had everything-her own home, an exciting career, fulfilling volunteer work-in an instant that all changed. She went for a bike ride, but woke up a week later on life support, her life forever altered. In August 2010 an inattentive driver sent her and her bicycle flying into a ditch, and this independent professional was reduced to being totally dependent on others. Medical professionals, family, friends, colleagues, and cats all played their...
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2011
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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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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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Gut gerüstet: Was tun bei einem Unfall mit dem Rad?
Ob ein Sturz mit dem Mountainbike im Wald oder ein Unfall mit dem E-Bike im Straßenverkehr: Kleine Schürfwunden und Kratzer sind mit einem Pflaster unkompliziert behandelt, doch bei schlimmeren Verletzungen gilt es, so schnell wie möglich Erste Hilfe zu leisten!
Fahrrad-Weltenbummler und Flugretter Thomas Widerin zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie nach einem Radunfall richtig reagieren. Kompakt und übersichtlich...
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