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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.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For fans of Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, the pulse-pounding story of how a Jewish race car driver and an American speed queen triumphed over Hitler's fearsome Silver Arrows on the eve of World War II"--
They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Renée Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international race car circuit, had been banned from the best teams - and fastest cars - by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage. Charles Weiffenbach,...
3) Motor mouth
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miami is still freakin' humid. The nights are even hotter. And there's a body on ice. And that's just the beginning of this adrenaline-rush of a hot-wired ride from phenomenal number one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First, there was Hooker and that salesclerk. Now she's convinced one of the competitors is up...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"How do you pick car racing GOATs? Richard Petty and Jeff Gordon get a lot of attention. But what about NHRA champion Brittany Force? And what about the versatile driver A.J. Foyt? It comes down to stats, history, and hunches. Read more about some of the legends of car racing and see if you agree that they're the greatest of all time"--
10) Super spies
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When someone is sabotaging race cars in an international tournament, Mater discovers his new friends Holley and Finn are spy cars, and he agrees to help them find the culprits.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a Princess learns from her Fairy Godmother that she is in last place in a car race against such fairy tale notables as Humpty Dumpty, the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin, she boldly rebuffs defeat and steps on the gas.
12) 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.
16) Cars 2
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Mater gets caught up in international intrigue when he and Lightning McQueen head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix to determine the world's fastest car.
17) Vroom, zoom, Bud
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House
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.
18) Cars 3
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lightning McQueen sets out to prove that he is still the best race car in the world.
19) Need for speed
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An underground race-car driver who was framed and sent to prison seeks his revenge by attempting to win America's most prominent street race.
20) Daredevil
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life and career of the pilot, race car driver, and astronaut, Betty Skelton.
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