As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved--to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician--had gone extinct. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth; there was nothing left to be discovered. Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars. In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle...

Hedgehog goes riding on his new bike, with his best friend Harry.

"Elena wants to ride her bike. She steadies, she readies. She wobbles, she bobbles ... KA-BANG! Learning to ride a bike is hard. But Elena can do it. She just has to try, try again"--

"One-of-a-kind guide to all aspects of hut-to-hut travel across the US"--

Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in position of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.