Cover of The Patchwork Bike

The Patchwork Bike

Maxine Beneba Clarke

In a village at the edge of a desert, a girl and her brothers make their own entertainment by building a bicycle from everyday and found objects. The homemade bike has branches for handlebars, tin-can handles, wooden wheels, and a bell that was once their mother's milk pot. The siblings ride it over sandy hills and repair it with further ingenuity, taking delight in the bike they created together.

This book appears on 5 reading lists across 2 editions from 5 organizations.

Book details

Lexile Text Measure
420L
ATOS Book Level
2.9
AR Interest Level
LG
AR Points
0.5
Word Count
215
Fountas & Pinnell Text Level
L
Themes
Adventure · Community · Imagination · Inventions · Siblings
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Candlewick
Published
September 11, 2018
Pages
40
ISBN-13
9781536200317
Language
English