Knights and Bikes: Rebel Bicycle Club

by Gabrielle Kent

Overview

The friendship, magic, and laugh-out loud adventure continues in this hilarious chapter book series!

Best friends Demelza and Nessa are always up for adventure. After all, what else is there to do on the sleepy island of Penfurzy? The two girls have discovered a magic world of myth and legend in a submerged castle just off the island, and now, accompanied by their pet goose Captain Honkers, are on a quest to help a headless knight (or rather, a knight who is JUST a head) find treasure.

They set off on their bikes and explore both the everyday and legendary worlds, and encounter everything from a sullen bully named Connan to a ghost train to an ancient tomb beneath a shuttered amusement park. Along the way, the two girls will become braver and even closer friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728272566
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	08/02/2023
Series:	Knights and Bikes , #2
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.64(d)
Lexile:	780L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Gabrielle’s first job was in videogames working on games for PC, Playstation and XBox, before spending sixteen years as a university lecturer teaching students how to make videogames. She currently lives in the North East of England with her husband, daughter, and Bengal cat, Kali - Destroyer of Sofas.

Editorial Reviews

"A free-wheeling romp." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-05-09
In a second exploit following 2021’s Knights and Bikes, the rebel bikers of the Cornish isle of Penfurzy earn their knighthoods by returning the magical Pendragon Cup to its rightful ghostly owner.

First, though, Nessa and Demelza—with Demelza’s goose, Captain Honkers, and the ancient severed head of Penfurzy knight Sir Calenick, met in the previous episode, in tow—must fetch the cup from the reclusive Lady of the Lake, escape a mob of shocked villagers after new kid Nessa slathers the jam on her scone after rather than before the cream (an unpardonable breach in Cornwall), break into a barrow hidden beneath a closed and creepy theme park, rout a trio of pesky boys, and like challenges. They demonstrate the value of teamwork and pull off rad bike tricks as they go. Variety in the fonts used adds to the book’s visual interest. The blocky figures in the frequent illustrations recall the look of those in the video game that inspired this spinoff, break up the text’s short chapters and enhance the story’s accessibility, and add to the humor of the hijinks. Illustrations show the locale’s ethnic diversity; Demelza reads White, and Nessa was previously identified as South Asian.

A free-wheeling romp with a distinctly British flavour. (map, video game sketches, excerpt from Volume 1) (Adventure. 7-10)

Kirkus Reviews