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1) Race cars
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A photographic introduction to race cars for beginning readers, explaining what race cars are, describing the parts of a race car, and looking at different kinds of race cars.
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This nonfiction title explores the various colors of racecars that can be seen on a day spent at the races. Readers go behind the scenes at the racetrack to learn what the different colored flags mean during a race. Other concepts such as differentiating standings in a race and identifying racetrack workers are also highlighted in the text. Color associations are a recurring theme throughout the title to meet early elementary curriculum standards....
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After turning in the fastest time for the day at a practice session at the Indianapolis 500, Kate Reilly finds out she isn't the first women to do so. That honor belongs to PJ Rodriguez, who accomplished that feat in 1987--and then committed suicide ten days later. Thirty years later, PJ's family still believes it was murder, not suicide, and Kate agrees to help them unmask the killer and restore PJ's reputation.
5) Red flags
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"When Kate Reilly arrives in Long Beach, California, a week ahead of the Grand Prix, she's immediately plunged into a new social scene--as well as a murder investigation. Her cousin Billy is found dead, with Kate's card in his pocket. The cops want to know why, and sponsors and race organizers--anxious to keep racing's image clean--want Kate to investigate."--
6) Metro girl
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When her wild and womanizing younger brother goes missing in southern Florida, Alexandra Barnaby endures humidity, sunburn, and bugs in her search for him alongside Sam Hooker, who believes Barnaby's brother has stolen his boat.
7) Race Day
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From the moment the driver climbs inside the car, the sights and sounds of an exciting day at the races roars to life in this straightforward presentation.
8) Dino-racing
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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.
9) Tracked
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Phee Van Zant, an orphaned street-racer on the corrupt planet Castra, gets swept up in the corporate rally circuit and an even bigger revolution.
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NASCAR sensation Ricky Bobby is a racing hero because of his "win at all costs" approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo. Dubbed "Shake" and "Bake" by their fans, the two have the ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges Ricky and Cal for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky must face...
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"When Rowland Sinclair, an artist with leftist friends and a free-wheeling lifestyle, is invited to take his yellow Mercedes onto the Maroubra Speedway, renamed the Killer Track for the lives it has claimed, he agrees without caution or reserve. But then people start to die... The body of a journalist covering the race is found in a House of Horrors. An English blueblood with Blackshirt affiliations is killed on the racetrack. And Rowland Sinclair...
14) Danica Patrick
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"This title focuses on Danica Patrick and gives information related to her early life, her time racing in NASCAR, and the legacy she leaves behind."--
16) Motor mouth
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Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby returns to take on a whole new set of bad guys, Florida heat, colorful and dangerous characters, and high-stakes adventure, all the while romancing gorgeous race car driver Sam Hooker.
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This book records and now preserves the history of Australian motorsport. Huge proportions of it were just on the very edge of being lost.
By the time you have read this book, you will be unbeatable at Australian motor racing trivia around any race campground fire pit or BBQ. You will know what the deadliest day was trackside in this country, the speedway promoter who discovered and named one of Australia's biggest international rock groups, the most...
20) Need for speed
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Tobey Marshall, a mechanic who moonlights as an underground race-car driver, strives to take the top prize in America's most prominent street race in order to have his revenge against the ambitious ex-NASCAR champ who had him framed and sent to prison.
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