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I guest posted over at Sean’s blog “Sean’s Cyclebabble” today. The post is titled “bikes in books in brevity” where I briefly remark upon a few encounters with bikes in books. Referenced are Nancy Springer’s The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery, Crunch by Leslie Connor, and Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce

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Crunch by Leslie Connor Katherine Tegen Books, 2010. 328 pages, hardcover. First-person narrator Dewey is as quaint as his name. In fact, the whole of Leslie Connor’s juvenile fiction novel Crunch is quaint. The second eldest child in a family of seven, Dewey is left in charge of the Bike Barn while his parents are