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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....
2) 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
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...
Author
Series
Five Little Monkeys volume 5
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Five little monkeys wash the family car before trying to sell it, but that is only the beginning of their adventures with the old heap.
Author
Series
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster.
9) 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.
11) The haunted car
Author
Series
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.
12) The gray ghost
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 10
Language
English
Description
The grandson of a man who was wrongly accused of stealing a recovered Rolls Royce prototype a century earlier hires husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo to solve the mystery and clear his grandfather's name.
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.
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas time, and there's a fuel bandit on the loose in Radiator Springs, making it impossible for the town's postal trucks to deliver everyone's Christmas letters to Santa Car. Christmas might be canceled unless Mater and McQueen can save the day.
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.
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.
18) Jack of spies
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...
19) Repo madness
Author
Series
Ruddy McCann novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruddy McCann is back in this laugh-out-loud, thrilling adventure. Ruddy finds himself missing the one thing he thought he would be happy to be rid of - the voice of Alan Lottner, dead realtor and Ruddy's future father-in-law. When Alan's voice returns, Ruddy and Alan work together to bring down a corrupt banker, win back his fianc{u2965}'s love, and stop a serial killer before he can strike again.
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,...
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