Leo rides his beloved red bicycle to school, soccer practice and everywhere in between. He is devastated when he outgrows Big Red. But when Leo learns of a bicycle donation program, he perks up - someone who really needs his bike can give it a new life. Little does he know that Big Red will change other people’s lives, too. Follow the bike as it travels to West Africa, where it helps people in Burkina Faso bring goods to the market, and serves as a makeshift ambulance, proving that an ordinary bicycle can be truly extraordinary.

Jay looks through the store window and the big red bike is calling him! He knows right then that he has to find a way to have it. Based on the author's real life experiences as a child.

When wildlife photographer Abbey Gallagher captures the tenderness between a protective mother gorilla and her newborn baby, she wonders if she can ever feel the same family bonds. First she has to shake loose the anger she carries toward her own mother. After she returns from Africa for her 30th birthday, her boyfriend Ryan cannot pry any commitment from her for their future together, despite her mother's playful, but pointed, urging and interference. Her mother's self-centered behavior drives the wedge between them even deeper, and Abbey retreats into her own defense mode: keep your life separate, don't share your feelings, retreat far away to another continent, refuse to make plans together, use people without letting them use you, stay detached, never say 'I love you'.But when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, Abbey postpones her return to Africa on assignment and offers begrudging assistance to lighten her father's caretaking load. One by one, the secret layers of her life as her mother's child are peeled away, until Abbey has no choice but to face a new and unsettling truth.Can she accept the changes in her relationship with her mother that arise as her health slips away? Can Abbey open herself to Ryan enough to repair their attachment and resume their romance, to make plans for a life together?Nothing seems possible until Abbey learns Ryan's childhood story of his yearning for a bike. Not just any bike. The red bike.

RED BIKE by Caridad Svich. A play about being a chid, growing up, living in small town America and figuring out where you stand in a divided country. A fable of dreams and possibility for our times. RED BIKE is an NNPN rolling world premiere. This publication is for Santa Catalina Editions and NoPassport Press.

What to do when you get a shiny new red bike? Go for a ride! Up and down! Round and round! Tom is having a blast zooming all over the neighborhood on his new red bike. But when Tom stops by Sam's house to show off his wheels, he's in for an unhappy surprise. The new bike is sudenly...gone. Could his best friend, Sam, be the culprit? This deceptivly simple-seeming picture book offers a clever take on sharing. The award-winning I Like to Read® series focuses on guided reading levels A through G, based upon Fountas and Pinnell standards. Acclaimed author-illustrators--including winners of the Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors--create original, high quality illustrations that support comprehension of simple text and are fun for kids to read with parents, teachers, or on their own! Level F books, for early first graders, feature longer, more varied sentences than Level E. Level F books encourange kids to decode new multi-syllable words in addition to recognizing sight words. Stories are more complex, and illustrations provide support and additional detail. When Level F is mastered, follow up with Level G.

This book is about my granddaughter named Avi. She wanted her mother to buy her a new red bike because her friends had a new bike. She wanted to ride up the street, down the street and around the corner. Avi always wanted to ride her own bike. Avi always dreamed about getting her own beautiful red bike for her birthday or for Christmas.

If she pretended that everything was fine, she wouldn't have to explain to anyone how badly she wanted a bike, how unfair it was that another summer had arrived and she was still on the sidelines. Nine-year-old Savannah Tate has just finished the fourth grade. She wants to ride a bicycle more than anything else, but she can't because of a physical handicap. Savannah walks with a crutch, but that isn't as big a problem as convincing her parents that she needs a bike. Maddie and Lucy, Savannah's two best friends, have lived in the same neighborhood since they started school. Whenever the girls want to have some privacy, they head to their favorite spot, an empty lot with a large oak tree. While she works out the details of getting her bike, Savannah and her friends learn that the beloved tree that has always been their haven is in danger of being torn down. The abandoned lot is being sold, and the prospective owner plans to build a new apartment complex. Savannah's spirit of determination helps her discover a long-lost secret about the land the tree sits on and its rightful owner-but will she find a way to save the tree?