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 cycling
self.
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