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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Covering virtually every scenario a new driver may face, from changing a tire and negotiating privileges with parents to handling a car in bad weather, a practical guide helps teen drivers navigate through tricky new territory on the road and at home. --Publisher's description.
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Charting the 130-years from the arrival of horseless carriages to the advent of driverless vehicles, celebrate the automobile and the romance of the open road. Beginning with the development of the first vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine, Drive explores the early glamour of driving, motor sport, and car design, and looks at how the automobile has shaped the modern world. Revealing the advances in technology and design that have made...
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors that explain how traffic works, why we drive the way we do, and what our driving says about us. Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers...
9) Vroom!
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a young girl's imaginary journey as she zooms in a race car past fields and forests to faraway lands before returning home to her own safe bed.
Publisher
Iowa Dept. of Transportation
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
This manual contains "the information needed for a general understanding of the principles of safe and lawful operation of a motor vehicle."
Este manual contiene "la información necesaria para una comprensión general de los principios de operación segura y legal de un vehículo motorizado".
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 54
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Selected by the mayor to give a special driving demonstration, Geronimo Stilton realizes his driver's license has expired and he must do everything he can to pass the test again, learn about a new robot car, and catch a thief.
13) Moo!
Author
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Cow gets her hooves on the farmer's car, she takes it for a wild ride through the country.
15) Toot toot zoom!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pierre lives all alone at the foot of the mountain so he hops in his car to find a friend. Will the car make it to the top of the mountain? Will it get safely down? Will Pierre ever find a friend?
16) Baby driver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A talented, young getaway driver relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss, he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers. Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids on the road during the Great Depression; from a psychotic traveling salesman to a Mexican drug lord who drives a tricked-out VW Bus. We all share the roads,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Deedee longs to escape the stifling world her Filipino mom has created since her husband died, so when Jay, the boy next door, offers to teach her to drive it seems like a way out--but both of them are haunted by family ghosts and traumas that force them apart.
19) Jeepers creepers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Alone on a desolate highway, two homebound teens are nearly run off the road by a demented tailgater. Later they spot this maniac disposing a body down into a sewer pipe. When they stop to investigate, they realize the horrible mistake they have made. The unspeakable evil maniac now intends to make them his next victims.
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