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Series
House of Winslow volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Big City Offers the Winslows New Life, but Will They Be Overcome by Its Lures?When two young Winslow cousins arrive in New York, they both seek to make their way to success. Peter Winslow throws himself into the world of car racing. But he is soon torn between Jolie Devorak, the woman who loves him, and Avis Warwick, a beautiful, wealthy woman who pressures him to join the fast set of high society. When Avis convinces Peter to let her ride in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quarter-midget car racer Michael Haynes and his twin brother Mark, the team's mechanic, are used to winning their races, but when a new, unscrupulous racer starts competing, even causing Michael to be injured in a race, the twins are tempted to start using different tactics themselves.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While high schooler Tim Carhardt tries to make sense of his auto-racing father's death, seventeen-year-old Jamie Maxwell deepens her relationship with God and becomes the youngest driver to qualify for a NASCAR event.
5) Speed demons
Author
Series
Phineas and Ferb volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summer vacation is a busy time for Phineas and Ferb, as they enter their mother's car into the Swamp-Oil 500 at the local speedway, and build a rollercoaster full of surprises.
Author
Series
Motor series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends and home track and wonders if the sponsor is legitimate.
8) Blind spot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Tim Carhardt and Jamie Maxwell, life has been all about NASCAR racing, but while Tim's only goal is to survive, Jamie is determined to become the first successful female driver, and both find themselves tested when dreams and faith collide.
Author
Series
Motor series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable, Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
10) Over the wall
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jamie is accepted at an elite NASCAR training school sponsored by a competing racing team, her parents try to get her to trust God to help her decide what to do.
11) Overdrive
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Jamie fights to earn her NASCAR license, her foster brother, Tim, takes a job in the Maxwell garage and finds out more about his father's death.
12) Yellow flag
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly succumbs to family pressure and replaces his injured brother in the family racecar, he struggles to keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or if--he can continue making music with a brass quintet and headlines as a Nascar racer.
Author
Series
Motor series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trace Bonham, a teenaged professional stock car racer, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his driving skills.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch BOoks
Pub. Date
2010,[that is, 2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Danny Mason's brother, "Clean" Cole Mason, is famous on the stock-car circuit for being a good guy. So Danny can't believe it when he starts to see signs that someone on his brother's team is sabotaging his opponents. Danny has to figure out what's going on before someone gets seriously hurt.
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Woe unto him who crosses Bob Lee Swagger, especially when his daughter's life is at stake. Forced off the road and into a crash that leaves her in a coma, clinging to life, reporter Nikki Swagger had begun to peel back the onion of a Southern-fried conspiracy bubbling with all the angst, resentment, and dysfunction that Dixie gangsters can muster. An ancient, violent crime clan, a possibly corrupt law enforcement structure, gunmen of all stripes...
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
Series
NASCAR heroes volume 3
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Diesel has kidnapped Astor in hopes of preventing Jimmy Dash from driving in the next NASCAR race, but supercharged Dash and his crew have a few tricks up their sleeves to combat everything from a car crusher to a very mean dog. Includes instructions on how to draw Jimmy Dash and Jack Diesel's racecar.
Author
Series
NASCAR heroes volume 4
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the off-season, superhero NASCAR driver Jimmy Dash skips practice to take over the lead role in a racing movie, unaware that the set is haunted by a stuntman determined to stop the filming. Includes instructions on how to draw Jimmy Dash and Jack Diesel's racecar.
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