A young orphan's hopes and an unusual bicycle bring about magical
results in this imaginative middle grade adventure from award-winning
author Bill Harley.
Life is an adventure for ten-year-old Darius Frobisher. His eccentric
father Rudy sells insurance four days a week. The other three days he
goes on exotic journeys. But when his father flies off in a hot air
balloon and doesn't come back, Darius's happy, carefree life suddenly
comes to an end.
He is sent to live with his notoriously nasty Aunt Ida, where he has to
sleep alone in a cold, damp basement and dodge the horrible teenage boy
next door.
Darius sees a ray of hope when he finds a rusty old bicycle in the
basement and begins to repair it in secret. Then one day he is startled
to see an old man with long flowing hair riding a bicycle across the
sky! That gives Darius a strange and wonderful idea. Now he knows what
he has to do to get away from his miserable life.