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5) Car goes far
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After an adventure, a shiny, clean car is in desperate need of a wash.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Series 2000 volume 21
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Mitchell's parents are delighted with their recent purchase of a sleek sports car, yet when the car's ghost makes an appearance, the family realizes that they have gotten much more than they bargained for.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Feeling less than enthusiastic when her eccentric family buys an electric car, avid reader Frances endures taunts by owners of gas-fueled vehicles before driving an injured neighbor to the hospital, an adventure that changes her mind about automobile travel.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime....
Author
Series
Jack McColl novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city--Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York--he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing...
10) Car trouble
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Early one August morning, seventeen-year-old computer "nerd" Duff Pringle leaves Richmond, Virginia, in a newly-acquired used car and begins an unexpectedly convoluted journey to San Jose, California, and the job that awaits him there.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—a novel about the fascination deadly things have for us and about our insistence on answers when there are none...
Since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in the shed out behind the barracks. Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox had answered a strange call just down the road and came back with an abandoned 1953 Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox...
Since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in the shed out behind the barracks. Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox had answered a strange call just down the road and came back with an abandoned 1953 Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox...
13) If I built a car
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack describes the kind of car he would build--one with amazing accessories and with the capability of traveling on land, in the air, and on and under the sea.
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Mater becomes increasingly excited about the Easter Buggy's annual delivery of such goodies as lug nuts and coolant, a skeptical Lightning McQueen fears that his friend will find his Easter tire empty and devises a special holiday plan.
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
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Determined to fill the skies of America's cities with flying cars, a tech start-up must manipulate political operatives to their advantage while overcoming fierce opposition from rideshare companies, the Audubon Society, socialists and the Russian mob.
17) Appare-Ranman!
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
HOW FAR I WILL BE ABLE TO GO? TO THE MOON? Appare Sorano's dreams are big--bigger than his village, bigger than the sea, bigger than the Earth itself. So when fate sweeps him away to Los Angeles without a penny to his name, Appare sees not catastrophe but an opportunity. Likewise, when he hears talk of the 1.51 million dollar prize for the Trans-America Wild Race--a transcontinental trek through the American frontier--he jumps right into the thick...
Author
Series
Ruddy McCann novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After repo man Ruddy McCann begins hearing the voice of Alan Lottner, the father of Ruddy's crush, in his head, Alan tasks Ruddy with finding his murderers.
20) Mr. Mercedes
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Bill Hodges es un policía jubilado. Brady Hartsfield es un asesino múltiple cuya culpabilidad Bill Hodges nunca logró demostrar. Ahora vuelven a encontrarse y cientos de vidas están en juego. ÈQuién es el cazador y quién la presa? Antes del amanecer, en una ciudad del medio-oeste, cientos de desempleados esperan la apertura de la oficina de empleo para solicitar uno de los mil puestos de trabajo que se han anunciado. Han hecho fila durante...
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