Book Description
The Spirit Flyer, a rusty old bicycle found in the city dump, surprises its new owner, John Kramar, when it magically lives up to its name, introducing John to an unknown world and changing his life for good.
Author : John Bibee
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1983-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780877843481
The Spirit Flyer, a rusty old bicycle found in the city dump, surprises its new owner, John Kramar, when it magically lives up to its name, introducing John to an unknown world and changing his life for good.
Author : Joseph W Connolly
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1681744422
The bicycle is a common, yet unique mechanical contraption in our world. In spite of this, the bike's physical and mechanical principles are understood by a select few. You do not have to be a genius to join this small group of people who understand the physics of cycling. This is your guide to fundamental principles (such as Newton's laws) and the book provides intuitive, basic explanations for the bicycle's behaviour. Each concept is introduced and illustrated with simple, everyday examples. Although cycling is viewed by most as a fun activity, and almost everyone acquires the basic skills at a young age, few understand the laws of nature that give magic to the ride. This is a closer look at some of these fun, exhilarating, and magical aspects of cycling. In the reading, you will also understand other physical principles such as motion, force, energy, power, heat, and temperature.
Author : Brian Patten
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 1995-02-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780744536515
When young Danny Harris knocks a witch into a ditch, she puts a spell on his bike: Like it or lump it, lump it or like, ride on forever, little tike
Author : John Bibee
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1993-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780830812899
John Bibee's allegorical adventure series for young readers retells the exploits, mishaps and triumphs of John and Susan Kramer and their friends--who find themselves thrown into a cosmic battle between good and evil in their otherwise ordinary town. This gift set includes books 5-8:The Last Christmas, The Runaway Parents, The Perfect StarandJourney of Wishes.
Author : Berlie Doherty
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Courage
ISBN : 9780006646143
A boy finds that he cannot ride his new bicycle during the day, only in his dreams at night, until one day he finally discovers the magic he needs to ride it in real life. Suggested level: junior.
Author : Christina Uss
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0823441083
A determined 12-year-old girl bikes across the country in this quirky and charming debut middle grade novel. Introverted Bicycle has lived most of her life at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. When her guardian, Sister Wanda, announces that Bicycle is going to attend a camp where she will learn to make friends, Bicycle says no way and sets off on her bike for San Francisco to meet her idol, a famous cyclist, certain he will be her first true friend. Who knew that a ghost would haunt her handlebars and that she would have to contend with bike-hating dogs, a bike-loving horse, bike-crushing pigs, and a mysterious lady dressed in black. Over the uphills and downhills of her journey, Bicycle discovers that friends are not such a bad thing to have after all, and that a dozen cookies really can solve most problems.
Author : William Hill
Publisher : Ellen Hill
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781890611002
Danny is a troubled teenager. He feels guilty and is emotionally troubled by the recent deaths of his mother and sister. His highly disciplined, hard-nosed, and neglectful military father is depressed and too busy for him.
Author : Maria Monte
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2022-05-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780987513076
Author : John Bibee
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 1987-07-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780830812011
Armed with only her magic Spirit Fire bicycle, Susan takes on the owner of a toy shop who is offering free toys to children in order to lure them into the Deeper World.
Author : Fred A. Birchmore
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0820357294
This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle tells of a young cyclist’s ever-changing and maturing worldview as he ventures through forty countries on the eve of World War II. It is an exuberant, youthful account, harking back to a time when the exploits of Richard Byrd, Amelia Earhart, and other adventurers stirred the popular imagination. In 1935 Fred A. Birchmore left the small American town of Athens, Georgia, to continue his college studies in Europe. In his spare time, Birchmore toured the continent on a one-speed bike he called Bucephalus (after the name of Alexander the Great’s horse). A born wanderer, Birchmore broadened his travels to include the British Isles and even the Mediterranean. After a lengthy, unplanned detour in Egypt, Birchmore put his studies on hold, pointed Bucephalus eastward, and just kept going. From desert valleys to frozen peaks, from palace promenades to muddy jungle trails, Birchmore saw it all on his eighteen-month, twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey. Some of the people he encountered had never seen a bike—or, for that matter, an Anglo-European. As a good travel experience should, Birchmore’s trip changed his outlook on strangers. Always daring, outgoing, and energetic, he now saw an innate goodness in people. In between bone-breaking spills, wild animal attacks, and privation of all kinds, Birchmore learned that he had little to fear from human encounters. That he traveled through a world on the brink of global war makes this lesson even more remarkable—and timeless.