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Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Racing Driver is a thrill-a-minute training course that shows children how the worlds fastest racing cars are driven. The book is divided into three types of spread that encourage the child to imagine speeding around the track and becoming a racing champion. Driving school looks at the engineering and science of driving. On the track puts the child behind the wheel in a variety of high-speed cars, including stock cars, Formula 1 cars and sports racers....
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.
7) Dino-racing
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text follow dinosaurs as they race against each other in dragsters, then off-road vehicles, and finally stock cars.
9) 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.
11) Cars 3
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lightning McQueen races back to take on a new generation of blazing-fast competitors! Can he make it to racing's biggest stage, the legendary Piston Cup Championship?
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...
Publisher
Ticktock
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Speed off into the exciting world of supercars--from Formula One champions and thrilling Nascars, to the record-breaking Bugatti Veyron and amazing Ferraris. With large, colorful pictures and lots of fun facts, this essential reference book will take you on a journey of discovery"--Page 4 of cover.
19) Stone Fox
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1983, c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
20) Zoom! zoom!
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Zoom! Zoom! All cars want to race! Who will win first place?"--
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