Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: An exciting, emotional, loving bicycle trip across the USA. Review: An aspiring crosscountry bicyclist or an armchair adventurer should love this adventure.
Five junior high children with a teacher leader meet the USA and grown up a lot
while doing their first bicycle touring. Anyone that likes children must love these. Your emotions will run wet as they meet challenges, get temporarially beaten, but come back and succeed. What they learn in meet the land head on and the people that
work the land is an education that can never be matched.
As a retired junior high teacher I fell in love with these children. You can understand
their effort given when you have met their leader and his wife, as I have. What a combination for success.
Howard Knost
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: This is a real education! Review: Every so often you read a book so surprisingly good, and which etches itself so indelibly in your mind, that you want to share it with everyone you know. Hey Mom is that book for me.I came to this book looking for inspiration. Fifteen years (and two children) after my last bicycle tour, I needed something to restir and restore my travel spirit. Little did I know how much MORE than a simple travel book Hey Mom would be. It's a story of bonding into a family, of courage and guts, of growing up and of reaching arms out to hug our country. It's a supreme adventure, built mile by mile with stories of an America few of us ever experience first hand. It's a book with true soul and terrific characterizations of kids you can only grow to love. You'll be startled when, all of a sudden, you just CAN'T put this book down. When finished, you'll be in awe of how John Seigel-Boettner made a simple story about kids on bikes into a classic you'll remember forever.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: You'll Remember This Story Forever Review: Every so often you read a book so surprisingly good, and which etches itself so indelibly in your mind, that you want to share it with everyone you know. Hey Mom is that book for me. I came to this book looking for inspiration. Fifteen years (and two children) after my last bicycle tour, I needed something to restir and restore my travel spirit. Little did I know how much MORE than a simple travel book Hey Mom would be. It's a story of bonding into a family, of courage and guts, of growing up and of reaching arms out to hug our country. It's a supreme adventure, built mile by mile with stories of an America few of us ever experience first hand. It's a book with true soul and terrific characterizations of kids you can only grow to love. You'll be startled when, all of a sudden, you just CAN'T put this book down. When finished, you'll be in awe of how John Seigel-Boettner made a simple story about kids on bikes into a classic you'll remember forever.
Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: Wonderful book to read to your kids Review: Great book to read to your kids. I did a little editing as I was reading it aloud (my kids are 7 and 8 years old). We picked up maps from our automobile association and traced their journey from start to finish. My kids learned about human behavior, predjudice, generosity to strangers and geography! Well, we're off on a bike ride!
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Great Book Wish John Would Write More Review: Having read a lot of books on bike tours,translate I did a research paper on bike touring in college. The adventures in this are the greatest. Although the tour was done about 10 years ago, the book is totally readable. Prepare for the totally unexpected and enjoy the adventures. I just wish John or one of the other teachers in his school would write more about their adventures. This was not a ride done in poverty, or with commercial support. Surviving a tornado alone with one other adult and 5 kids when you don't know it is coming. Fighting traffic, and weather from blistering heat to frigid cold, from no breeze to gusty winds. Meetings with families from Plantations to a replacement tire being shown from the back of a jeep to replace a tire a young rider has being riding on held together by duct tape. This was a great book.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: One of my favorite books Review: I have read several bicyle touring books but this is one of my favorites. Even though John's writing style is a little simplistic (sorry John) I still loved this book. Actually his simplistic style just adds to the mood of riding with five kids. If you are a fan of bicycle touring books this is a must read.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: One of my favorite books Review: I have read several bicyle touring books but this is one of my favorites. Even though John's writing style is a little simplistic (sorry John) I still loved this book. Actually his simplistic style just adds to the mood of riding with five kids. If you are a fan of bicycle touring books this is a must read.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Wonderful book that shows what people can do! Review: I have read this particular book to my students for the last 3 years. We use it as a basis for our own Mighty Bike ride at the end of the year. A must read book for anybody who has ever thought about doing the impossible with a bunch of kids.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: a good and interesting book Review: i thought that this book was very good. i liked the idea and admired the courage it took for anyone to attempt such a thing. i would reccommend it to adults and kids both, because it seems like a good way to expirence America from your own home. kudos to John for his good work.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: motivation Review: in fifth grade, about eleven years ago, this book inspired a teacher at my elementary school to train any fifth graders interested, to be able to ride from the colorado river, to carlsbad beach in san diego. this was a 280 mile bike ride that took about 6 1/2 days to complete. i myself did this ride in fifth grade, and because of it, i can later in life be able to tell myself that i can do whatever i want to do. thank you to the authors of this book that inspired my teacher to begin doing this eleven years ago, and to continue to do it for years to come!
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