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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Danica Patrick is the most popular driver in the Indy Racing League (IRL). She has won fans with her skill, toughness, and charm. In 2008, Danica rewarded her fans by doing something that no other woman had ever done-she won an IRL race. Danica amazed her supporters again in 2009 when she announced that she would race in some NASCAR events starting in 2010. Read this book to learn more about car racing's most dynamic driver.
3) Daredevil
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In the 1930s most girls were happy playing with dolls. But one girl, Betty Skelton, liked playing with airplanes, watching them fly around outside, and even flying airplanes herself! She lived for an adventure - in the air, the water, and on land - and nothing could stop her, especially not being a girl. When Betty Skelton was young there weren't many women flying airplanes or racing cars, but she wouldn't let that stop her. She was always ready to...
5) Racer girls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Engines roar as powerful cars race by! Most of the drivers are men, but a few cars have women behind the wheel. Inside this book, you'll meet some great female racecar drivers. Today's reluctant readers are easily drawn to the distractions of electronic games, DVDs, and TV. But what if they had a book series designed just for them? What if all the titles featured high-interest topics, rockin' designs, and language kids understand? Our Reading Rocks!...
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Stock car racing is not only the most popular sport in the country, but it's also among the most dangerous, as well. Traveling at speeds of over 200 miles per hour, drivers risk their lives every time they take the wheel. To be competitive, drivers must feel invincible. The best of them did, and lived life, on the racetrack, to the fullest. Their zest for life and for racing is celebrated in this powerful book.
In The Last Lap, updated edition, best-selling...
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English
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The riveting memoir of a life lived at the right-hand edge of the speedometer.
Alex Roy's father, while on his deathbed, hints about the notorious, utterly illegal cross-country drive from Los Angeles to New York of the 1970s, which then inspired his young son to enter the mysterious world of underground road rallies. Tantalized by the legend of the Driver-the anonymous, possibly nonexistent organizer of the world's ultimate secret race-Roy set out...
10) Wendell Scott
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Explore the . . . life of Wendell Scott, one of the first African American NASCAR drivers and first African American to win a race in the Grand National Series"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace
At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies, the car and airplane, took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace.
No individual did more to create...
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"The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, barred everyone who wasn't a white male from the sport. Dewey Gatson, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter of racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. Though Rajo Jack spent his whole life striving to reach the pinnacle...
13) Racing against the odds: the Story of Wendell Scott, stock car racing's African-American champion
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
15) Danica Patrick
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Series
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
17) Danica Patrick
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Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
18) Danica Patrick
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Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group's/PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
19) Danica Patrick
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English