Chasing Time - The Magic Bicycle 2 - Softcover

Hill, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890611034 ISBN 13: 9781890611033

Publisher: Otter Creek Pr Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Imagination, magic, and fantasy are all at play as Danny and Murg, the talking cat, take on Spike the bully. For teens and pre-teens!

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Grade 5-7Danny Chase, owner of a bicycle that makes the Magic School Bus look like a Model T, pursues bully Spike Blocker through space and time in this bloated sequel to The Magic Bicycle (Otter Creek, 1998). The bike, given to Danny in the first book by a grateful alien, will go anywhere and become anything he can imagineso he is understandably dismayed when Spike steals a piece of it, creates a bike of his own, and sets off for the past, intending to amass a collection of significant home-run baseballs that he can auction off for the stake that will allow him to leave his brutally abusive stepfather, Ike. Creating a supporting cast that includes telepathic cats, Men (and a Woman) in Black, evil sorceress Morgan Le Fay, and several historical figures, Hill sends his teenaged protagonists barreling through past and future on a chase so protracted that even Danny (never mind readers) starts feeling a sense of dj vu. In the end, after heart-to-hearts with Plato, Shakespeare, Jeannette dArc, and Babe Ruth, plus a violent climax that Danny witnesses and then averts by changing the course of history, Spike and Danny bury the hatchet, Spike and Ike agree to seek counseling, and other conflicts are resolved with similar tidiness. Stuffed with subplots, repetitive scenes, a plethora of pithy quotations and old saws, plus revisited characters and incidents from the previous book, this genre buster is more a bulging grab bag of disparate elements than an organized story.John Peters, New York Public Library
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Edition details

• Publisher: Otter Creek Pr Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890611034
• ISBN 13: 9781890611033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 381