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1) Motor mouth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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At the start of this cool comedy thriller from bestseller Evanovich, her second novel to star Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby (after 2004's Metro Girl), Barney and her unfaithful NASCAR racing honey, Sam Hooker, find themselves in trouble after discovering the shrink-wrapped body of ruthless businessman Oscar Huevo in a rival racer's car hauler. The pair must pull together to protect a high-tech gizmo that can revolutionize racing-and save their lives....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Readers will delight in this lively read-aloud story with a clever and surprising twist at the end--perfect for Halloween and year round! Ready, set, go! The monster truck race is on in this frightfully delightful picture book. On a spooky speedway, Monster Trucks moan! Monster Trucks grumble! Monster Trucks groan! Join Frankentruck, Zombie Truck, Ghost Truck, and more as they race to the finish line. But one of these trucks isn't quite who you think....
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Hot Rod Hamster (Picture books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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When a tiny hamster decides to build a hot rod to race at the 4 Paws Speedway, he and his furry friends go to the junkyard, where they must make decisions on which type of car, tires, parts and decorations to choose. The hamster asks readers, "Which one would you choose?
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Based on the best-selling novel by Garth Stein, this is a heartfelt tale narrated by a witty and philosophical dog named Enzo. Through his bond with his owner Denny, an aspiring Formula One racecar driver, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition and understands that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life. The film follows Denny and the loves of his life, his wife, Eve,...
6) Dino-racing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Illustrations and rhyming text follow dinosaurs as they race against each other in dragsters, then off-road vehicles, and finally stock cars.
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Fast and Furious volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Now an ex-cop on the run, Brian, hooks into outlaw street racing. When the Feds strong-arm him back, Brian's no rules, win-or-die skills are unleased against an international drug lord. With his velocity-addicted buddy riding shotgun, and a drop-dead-georgeous undercover agent dialing up the heat ... it becomes a desperate race for survival and justice.
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"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...
14) Metro Girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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A thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blodded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who's along for the ride.
15) The racers: how an outcast driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car challenged Hitler's best
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"In the years before World War II, Adolf Hitler wanted to prove the greatness of the Third Reich in everything from track and field to motorsports. The Nazis poured money into the development of new race cars, and Mercedes-Benz came out with a stable of supercharged automobiles called Silver Arrows. Their drivers dominated the sensational world of European Grand Prix racing and saluted Hitler on their many returns home with victory. As the Third Reich...
17) Days of thunder
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Race car driver Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) teams with a legendary crew chief (Robert Duvall) to race at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends his career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve to race, to win and to live.
18) Crash into you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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"The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life-- that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker. But when the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind. Isaiah...
19) Jeff Gordon
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Recounts the life of race car driver Jeff Gordon, whose highly successful, record-breaking career was kicked off when he was four years old and received a quarter midget race car from his father.
Description
Based on the best-selling novel by Garth Stein, this is a heartfelt tale narrated by a witty and philosophical dog named Enzo. Through his bond with his owner Denny, an aspiring Formula One racecar driver, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition and understands that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life. The film follows Denny and the loves of his life, his wife, Eve,...