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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
3) Metro girl
Author
Series
Alexandra Barnaby novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her not-so-bright brother Wild Bill, a boat captain, goes missing in Florida, Barney takes up the search. Apart from the sunburn and humidity-induced bad hair, Barney also has to deal with Sam Hooker, whose missing boat might lead to Wild Bill.
Author
Series
Fast track (Erin McCarthy) volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Kendall Holbrook is determined to make it to the top, even with the challenge of being a woman on the male-dominated racing circuit. She doesn't have time for romance-especially not with racing rival Evan Monroe, the man who nearly crushed her dream years ago. Tricked into meeting him, Kendall is experiencing all those old feelings again-and she can't deny that they still have enough chemistry to set fire to the track.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Little readers can rev up their engines as they join in the action by following ten classic race cars as they zoom around the track and, along the way, learn to spot cars inspired by some of racing history's legends.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
9) Hot finish
Author
Series
Fast track (Erin McCarthy) volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of the first African American NASCAR champion Wendell Scott, Born Driven is an uplifting tale celebrating the power of persistence and big dreams. Like many other boys, Wendell Scott had a big dream: to become a race car driver. He loved to race anything and everything! Although he faced many difficulties as an African American boy in the South, Wendell had the willpower to overcome these obstacles. Join Wendell Scott for...
13) Offtrack
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Diana Zahrani is Formula One's first female racing driver this century. All the other drivers are told to race carefully around her, and leave her to her real job: being a pretty face and good advertising for a hypermasculine sport. But Diana's not worked this hard her whole life just to be a mascot. World Championship favourite Miguel de la Fuente is not taking any rookie seriously, let alone a woman. With his first championship win looming, all...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La historia del mejor piloto Mexicano de Fórmula 1 de todos los tiempos. En 2021, Checo Pérez hizo historia: se convirtió en el segundo piloto mexicano en ganar dos Grandes Premios de F1 y el primero en participar en más de 200 carreras de la máxima categoría. Nunca te rindas es el relato de su extraordinario recorrido en las pistas: el niño que desde antes de los 12 años era uno con el volante; el piloto que en las calles de Mónaco burló...
15) Race car rival
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shawn is lucky enough to be a junior team member on Johnny Pride's stock car team, but when he arrives at the racetrack in Talladega, it turns out that Shawn will be helping Johnny's biggest competition, "Mean" Gene Pederson. Shawn is disappointed to be helping his hero's rival, but he soon realizes that appearances aren't everything and that there may be more to Mean Gene than a bad reputation.
17) Vroom, zoom, Bud
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bud enters a race and gets so distracted by a mud puddle he finishes last, but still has fun because he loves to be muddy.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Published to coincide with the one-hundredth anniversary of the Indianapolis 500, an account of the competition's first race discusses its significantly fewer safety measures, the dispute surrounding its outcome, and its role in triggering the automotive age.
19) Number one Sam
Author
Publisher
Disney*Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A competitive race-car driving dog learns that some things are more important than being number one"--
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