Hand Me Down Kid Author:Francine Pascal IBeing the youngest in the family isn't easy for eleven-year old Ari Jacobs. In fact, Ari is convinced that her sole purpose in the family is to inherit all the things no one wants anymore - from clothes, to her sister Elizabeth's old bed, to a three-speed bicycle that's practically an ancient relic. When Rhona, the school buyyl, urges Ari to ... more »"borrow" Elizabeth's new ten-speed Peugeot for a bicycle race in the park, Ari is trapped. All she has to do, she tells herself, is return the bike before Liz notices it's missing. But when the bicycle is stolen, Ari is forced to tell lie after lie to protect herself from her family's anger. How can she help locate the missing bike without revealing her own part in its disappearance?« less