Pedal Pusher: How One Woman’s Bicycle Adventure Helped Change the World Ann Patchett NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise

interactive family read-aloud book

Clever kids will try to trap me

of a ferocious contest between present and past

”—Amy Tintera

Pedal Pusher: How One Woman’s Bicycle Adventure Helped Change the World Ann Patchett NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilaratingAnnie Cohen Kopchovsky was ready to ride her bicycle. Not to the market. Not around the block. Not across town. Annie was going to ride her bike all the way around the world. In 1894, when two men bet that a woman could never bicycle around the world, as a man had done, Annie set out to prove them wrong, despite not knowing how to ride a bike. Dressed in a long skirt, she began her journey in Boston. It wasnt easy, but Annie never gave up. Her