The Disappearing Bike Shop Author:Elvira Woodruff Tyler and his friend Freckle are amazed as they watch a stone building rise up from its foundation and disappear into a whirling cloud of dust before their eyes. When the building reappears, the boys discover it’s a bike shop, complete with a talking parrot, and Quentin Quigley, a bizarre old man who looks more like a wizard than a shop ow... more »ner. Who is this strange man, and why is there a human skull in his shop?
It seems he does more than repair bikes. When the boys discover a secret room filled with unusual artwork and inventions, they wonder about Mr. Quigley's true identity. Before they find out, Tyler and Freckle get trapped in one of Mr. Quigley’s remarkable inventions and, ready or not, they travel back through time in a hair-rasing adventure wondering if they will be stranded in the past forever. « less