Mountain Bike Mania (Matt Christopher Sports Classics) [Paperback]

Matt Christopher (Author), The #1 Sports Writer for Kids (Illustrator)

Book Description

Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Matt Christopher Sports Classics

Riding a bike is such a rush for Will Matthews. Soon after he joins a mountain biking club, he's hurtling down hills, pedaling over mud-churned trails and leaping over rocks and gullies. But he may be moving so fast that he's forgotten the friend he left behind.160 pp.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-6-This sturdy and fast-moving novel posits a simple situation: an avowedly unathletic sixth-grader, pushed by his parents to find an after-school activity, discovers and falls in love with mountain biking. Will and Danny's friendship is endangered by Will's new passion and Danny's resistance to it. Both characters are well drawn, and their dialogue-whether angry or affectionate-rings quite true and reveals the common sense and good hearts of both boys. Needless to say, Christopher tidily resolves their disagreements as well as the book's subplots-a conflict between bikers and hikers; Will's parents' tendency to work too much and leave him a latchkey kid; and the bike club's need for new members and better PR, especially to make up for the behavior of an immature member. The issues that Christopher addresses-usage of public spaces, responsibility to the environment, the necessity of parents balancing work and child rearing, friends respecting one another's differences-are worked into the plot, rather than placed atop it, and Will's loving family environment, if a tad too perfect, is also reassuring and endearing.
Coop Renner, Coldwell Elementary-Intermediate School, El Paso, TX
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316142921
• ISBN-13: 978-0316142922
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 7.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,229,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Winner, December 13, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Mountain Bike Mania (Matt Christopher Sports Classics) (Paperback)

This book is about a kid (Will Mathews) who is very lousy and in't good at any sports. But one day he goes hiking only to see three mountain bikers that are having a blast. After Will saw them he jouined the club that they were in and soon was having as much fun as the people they saw. Unfortunatly his friend hates to mountain bike and that startes a whole mess that no one knows if it will be over. This book was so good that I read on my own.(I don't like to read that much) If you are looking for a good book and love sports (speceialy mountain biking) then I strongly, absolutly recomend this book to all yong sports lovers for this is the book for YOU! Although the book is not fully about mountain biking(I do wish that it had) it was still a great book. Of course their are probably better books out their that have your name on them and some of them might be one of Matt Christerphor (the aothore)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mountain Bike Mania, October 26, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Mountain Bike Mania (Matt Christopher Sports Classics) (Paperback)

Mountain Bike Mania by Matt Christopher is about a boy named Will who loves to watch TV. Will loves to eat candy-covered popcorn while he waits for his mom to get home.
When Will goes to school, he gets bullied a lot. Then Will discovers a mountain biking club. Then Will asks his mom for a new mountain bike.
I liked the book because I have a mountain bike at home. There was a lot of biking action. I would recommend this book because it was interesting.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Cool!, November 26, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Mountain Bike Mania (Matt Christopher Sports Classics) (Paperback)

I thought that Mountain Bike Mania was a pretty cool book.
I really like to ride Mounatin bikes and I felt as though I was the one riding the bike in the story. You really felt like you were in the middle of the action. I like the way Matt Christopher writes and would like to read another one of his books. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to ride mountain or dirt bikes.