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fun book. Very imaginative and quirky. Doesn't quite come together in some parts but the character arc is welldone and I couldn't put it down, How can I not love a story about biking! This was honestly one of the most delightful books I've readhumor and heart and adventure and characters you can't help but love.
Highly recommended. LOVED this book! This is definitely going down as one of my all time top favorite books that I read to my daughter, Such a FUN read just really laugh out loud, preposterous fun, I will heartily recommend this book to anyone, Bicycle is so lovable, her adventure is challenging but filled with so many good things on the way and good people, The pace, dialogue, character

and plot development are all top notch, all very clever, Great writing! And Fun reading! So glad I picked this one up! This was SUCH a delightful read, Echoes of The Phantom Tollbooth at times with just the right amount of offthewall absurdity balanced with very real feelings of loneliness and how we make our own families and destinies.


Also, the Mostly Silent Monks and the Eight Sacred Words were LOVELY and also hilarious and as the world's foremost 'robots/androids/cyborgs are people too' bannercarrier, I was delighted by Fortune's sentience and that it was counted among Bicycle's friends.
I just couldn't get into this one, Nearly Silent Monks who say only eight words, one of which is "sandwich" And that's just the tip of the iceberg, It's trying way, way too hard to be quirky, Sandwich. "The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle" has it alladventure, humor, drama, information and so, so much heart, Bicycle has been raised by residents of a "mostly silent" order in a monastery in Washington, D, C. She, naturally, chooses to speak very little until her desire to meet her cycling hero launches her onto a twowheeled quest to San Francisco, She meets a wide variety of characters along her wellresearched route and each one of those contributes to her personal growth and the entertainment of readers ageand up, Christina Uss does a masterful job of keeping her novel lighthearted and yet full of meaningful lessons on friendship, kindness, generosity, and perseverance, Her writing is detailed without getting bogged down into the minutiae and characters are welldeveloped which results in huge buyin for readers as they root for Bicycle to achieve her goal and for those she meets along the way to find what they are searching for, as well.
ELA teachers could easily use this novel as a class read aloud and would find that a plethora of skills, such as theme, character development, cause/effect, and figurative/sensory language, just flow from discussion that will certainly ensue.
There is a joy and energy that seems to leap from the pages of this highly recommended book and having briefly met Ms, Uss at theTexas Library Conference's Bluebonnet Award speeddating program, I can see her voice speaking through Bicycle, She was such a pleasure to watch and talk to, not only the program, but as I waited in line in the Author Alley later, I am anxiously watching for her next book and can not believe that this was her first one!! A very cute book about friendship, responsibility, fried pies, helping others, and of course bicycles.
The pacing was good and all the characters were fun and rememberable, It was a tad overly sweet but a fun read! What a lovely heart warming story, So much adventure with a large dash of hijinks, Funny and exciting, this was “real life fiction” with an addition of a splendid supernatural twist, fantastical characters and lots of American geography, Food is surprisingly played out in detail and Oh! and dont forget the running of the pigs, something that made me laugh out loud,

I think what was really attractive to me was that there was a lot of hope in this book, a lot of positivity, a lot of joy, The world needs a lot more of all these things, and Christina Uss brings them in abundance,

Great for boys and girls alike, this book is perfect reading fun foryear olds! Watch out for it in the BBB summer suggestions and summer reading program! A foundling, a "mostly silent" monastery, a bicycle with some pretty incredible technology, a ghost from the Civil War, a crosscountry trip.
Sounds improbably incongruous, but trust me, these disparate elements all come together in an engaging and adventurous story, You'll enjoy getting to know Bicycle and the friends and supporters she meets while riding from DC to San Francisco, With a forwardmoving plot andshortish chapters, this book would work well as a classroom readaloud, And reluctant readers won't get too discouraged or bogged down, Carefully constructed I couldn't find any loose ends and well written, I anticipate seeing The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle on some of theawards short lists.
Like all good magic realism, this book works best when you suspend your disbelief just go along for the ride and enjoy the twists and turns,
This is a book that truly deserves the word "adventure" in its title! I loved the way the author created a quirky but realistic cast of characters, which will help readers suspend disbelief as they're carried along on this amazing bike trip.
Coming summer, this would make a great read for families on road trips, Its hard to say who my favorite character is in this incredibly endearing, heart warming story, From the talkative mostly silent monk Otto to a fantastic singing ghost named Griffin you are most certainly bound to find many personalities that latch onto your heart! Even Sister Wanda managed to sneak into mine! This is also the coziest adventure with some magic thrown in for good measure.
Bicycles tenacity and spirit kept me coming back for more until the end of our time together, Highly recommend this delight of novel, it truly felt like a warm hug, Bicycle has grown up at the Mostly Silent Monastery where she was abandoned as a child, She loves her life with Sister Wanda and the Mostly Silent Monks, But Sister Wanda is getting worried by the fact that Bicycle has no friends, so she signs her up for a summer camp called the Friendship Factory, Bicycle is horrified by the prospect, and hatches her own plan to find friends, She's going to bicycle herself from her home in Washington D, C. to San Francisco for the Blessing of the Bicycles where her cycling idol, Zbig, will be appearing and she's sure just waiting for her to befriend him, She's got supplies, her trusty bicycle Clunk, and the gumption to get herself across the nation, But is that enough

This is a quirky little road trip with a very friendly ghost, a girl who has had a most unique upbringing, a very random assortment of people along the way, and a tour of the US from DC to San Fran.
I was a little surprised when the ghost showed up, but it's probably the coziest ghost story out there, I think the ghost was just a device to have Bicycle able to talk to her bicycle for the first half of the book, He wasn't scary at all, He was funny, goofy, and very good for Bicycle, A story about a girl biking solo across the US could have been very tense and filled with mishaps and nasty people, But Bicycle overwhelmingly runs into people who are kind, helpful, and just what Bicycle needs to keep going, It's a feel good story, and the troubles Bicycle does face aren't sinister and are quickly resolved, Having driven across the US on a route that basically followed the route Bicycle took from Illinois to Nevada, I have to say the descriptions of the trip were pretty much on point.
Which should be the case, The back of the book shares that the author actually has cycled across the US herself, Hand this to middle graders looking for a story unlike anything they've read before, those who like travel tales, bicyclists, and fans of friendship stories, Because ultimately, this is a story about a journey to find friends, And Bicycle succeeds in ways she never expected or could have predicted, Charming, inventive, and extremely enjoyable road novelI was happy to follow Uss's plucky hero, Bicycle, on her ride from Washington, D, C. , to San Francisco, and I'm hoping there are more journeys ahead, Thoughts of Peewee's Big Adventure kept coming to me as I turned the pages, though Uss's lyrical and lovely creation is all her own, The novel is whimsical without turning too cute, and the imaginative episodes with a benign ghost, a slowfood chef, a curious inventor, and many more kept me appreciatively amused, Kids should adore this book, which is unafraid to delve into deep watersincluding the nature of friendship, the good will of strangers, and the role of luck in our lives.
Uss even slips in a little Robert Frost, Here's hoping wanderlust strikes Bicycle again soon, You can tell the author knows cycling with some unrealistic adventures for the kids, kidlitexchange partner
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I absolutely loved this book! A very young girl shows up at a Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D, C. wearing a shirt with a picture and the word “Bicycle” printed on it, Sister Wanda and the monks at the monastery call her Bicycle and raise her as their own, Sister Wanda home schools Bicycle who is a quick learner! One day while shes out shopping with the monks, she spots an old rusty bike and buys it with her spare change.
She fixes up the bike, names him Clunk, and rides him everywhere,
Sister Wanda decided that Bicycle needs to make more friends and signs her up for Summer Camp at the Friendship Factory, Bicycle wants no part of this, and plans her own adventure to bike across the country to meet her hero, Zbigniew Sienkiewicz,
When Bicycle escapes from the bus for the Friendship Factory, her journey begins! Bicycle will travel from Washington, D, C. to California, making friends and having many adventures along the way! She will let a ghost haunt her bike, help a French chef save her restaurant chain, almost get trampled by a parade of pigs, get stranded in Kansas, and so much more.
Read this fascinating book to take an incredible journey with ayear old girl across the country! Will she meet Zbig, her hero Will she make it to California Will Sister Wanda find her Read this wonderful book to find out!
I just loved each and every character in this book, from Bicycle, to Brother Otto, to Griffin G.
Griffin, and even FortuneJ, I cant wait to purchase this book for my classroom, Great debut novel from Christina Uss!,