At the event, Henry's name is drawn in a raffle to receive $50 worth of beauty-treatment coupons at the supermarket's beauty parlor. One day Henry and his family attend the grand opening of the town's new supermarket. Each chapter centers around Henry's ideas to get a bicycle, including selling boxes of bubble gum he found abandoned in an alley and buying a bike from an auction. But he only earns a penny for every empty Coke bottle turned in for recycling, so it will take a long time to get that bike. So he decides to start a bicycle fund, and save up the $59.95 himself. One of the older boys in the neighborhood, Scooter McCarthy, has a new red bike, and Henry imagines himself riding one up and down Klickitat Street just like Scooter. Henry Huggins really wants a bicycle, but his family can't afford one this year. Finally his friend Beezus gives him an idea that actually works. Henry comes up with many ways to earn money for the new red bicycle he wants, but they all seem to end up with him in trouble.

This humorous children's novel was written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1952. Henry and Beezus is the second book in the Henry Huggins series.

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