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1) Bikes
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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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Maurice rides his bike all over selling lemonade, while Lotta rides her bike collecting sticks as she goes; they ride different routes and are completely unaware of each other--until their bikes are wrecked and they meet at Sid's who has turned their damaged bikes into a one tandem bike, and a friendship is born.
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Kino Lorber
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2015.
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English
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A documentary about bikes and what an amazing tool for change they can be. BIKES VS. CARS highlights conflicts in city planning between bikes, cars and a growing reliance on fossil fuels. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"Gertten has put in the time to capture how these cities' unique scenarios unfold to mount a compelling case against the powerful automotive industry, oil and construction." - Martin Tsai, **The Los Angeles Times***...
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Readers will be amazed to discover that every time they climb onto bicycles and ride like the wind, they are defying gravity! This book explains the physics and history behind bicycles, skateboards, and surfboards. Readers learn what happens from the simplest movement of rolling forward to more complex tricks and stunts of jumping and spinning. Readers will never look at bikes, skateboards or surfboards the same way again.
5) Bikes go!
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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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Ever gotten lost in a book? Or on your bicycle? Or both at once, by falling through a portal on the page? Anything is possible in this collection of fifteen very short stories and one comic. Ranging from science fiction to fantasy and traveling in time from a reimagined past to the heat death of the universe, these stories combine the personal and popular power of spokes and words. Meet a young graduate who rides off to become a velo-archivist, a...
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Deep down, we all know we need to talk about it: Climate, earth's resources, cities where the entire surface is consumed by the car. An ever-growing, dirty, noisy chaos created by gas-consuming machines. Cars would seem to provide the lure of freedom, but in many places, traffic is so bad that drivers spend hours every day just going short distances. The bike is a great tool for change, but powerful interests who gain from the private car invest billions...
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What in the world is going on? What do you do when you find a classmate beaten up, his new bike taken from him by the school's most dangerous bully? If you're Neil Everheart, you agree to get the bike back from the bully, which means an after-school showdown in front of half the school. And that's just in the first few pages of Bikes and Bullies. Soon more new bikes are missing in Greenbelt, where Neil lives, even though Neil's father, the town's...
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As you ride down the intergalactic bike path, you come to a crossroads. Which path will you take? Your choice could determine your future, or the future of all humanity, forever. These twelve stories explore a variety of intersections set in distant, outlandish, or disturbingly realistic futures and dimensions-all involving bicycles and the breaking of gender stereotypes. A bicycle race spans a rift between worlds. A teenager learns a valuable lesson...
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For sisters Diem, Drea, and Ophelia, coming from the same bloodline as Julian "Knight" Hart meant that the legacy of their motorcycle club, Hart's Angels, must continue to live up to his expectations. Although the sisters are as different as night and day, they were taught by their father that it's always family over everything.Diem, the foul-mouthed tycoon and oldest of the three, can't seem to balance her multimillion-dollar business and personal...
13) Bikes
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E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
©1987.
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English
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Describes many different types of bikes, including the unicycle, tandem bike, racing bike, exercise bike, and trail bike.
14) Dirt bikes
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"Engaging images accompany information about dirt bikes. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
16) Mountain bikes
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Provides an overview of the history of mountain bicycles and their main features.
17) Dirt bikes
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Describes dirt bikes, motorcycles intended for off-road riding and motocross racing, and provides information on their structure, types of competitions, and safety measures.
18) Dirt bikes
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This book focuses on dirt bikes and gives information related to their types, gear, history, and competitions. The title is complete with beautiful and colorful photographs, simple text, and a database for added activities. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
19) Dirt bikes
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Discover the acrobatic abilities of these lightweight motorcycles. Meet the gravity-defying masters of motocross racing! In this book, readers in grades 4-8 will jump into the rip-roaring, hill-leaping world of dirt bikes!
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