Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
It’s not a want. It’s a NEED.Frankie Bunting is ten, fast up hills, and absolutely certain she needs the Blagg 9000: forty-seven gears, a seat like a cloud, and a horn that plays a tune. It costs $899.95. The poster says ONLY 3 LEFT! (It has said that for a year.)Frankie has $23.40 in a jar.So Frankie and her best friend Dev get to work. They sell everything at the front gate (including some things that weren’t Frankie’s). They start a dog-walking business with nine dogs (well, eight). They throw Bunting’s Big Backyard Bonanza, with a haunted shed, guinea-pig racing and little brother Alfie’s Horse Rides (in a wheelbarrow), just before the sky turns a colour nobody wants to name.Then there’s the Blagg Dash: a bike race with a Blagg 9000 as the prize. The fine print says only bikes bought from Blagg’s Bike Palace can enter. Frankie’s bike is called the Rust Bucket.But Mrs Hailstone, the crossing supervisor, has a garage full of bikes hanging from the ceiling like bats, and a secret about Frankie’s old bike that changes everything.A laugh-out-loud Australian chapter book about wanting something so much it feels like a need, what a want really costs, and finding out that the bike you have might be the one you needed all along.Inside this book- 26 short chapters, each with its own illustration- Big laughs, running gags and a bike race finish- Set in a hilly Brisbane suburb in magpie season- After the story: questions to talk about together, a two-lists game for home (NEEDS and WANTS), a feelings corner on wanting, things to find on a second read, and a note on safe ridingPerfect for- Readers aged 8 to 12, and for reading aloud to 7+- Newly independent readers ready for a first proper chapter book- Families talking about needs, wants and money- Classrooms and book clubs
