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Rancher Kit Troxley loves the thrill of the racetrack. He is well aware that horse racing can be a perilous sport, but when ruthless jockey Sam Overmyer cheats him for the win, Kit's eyes are opened to the dark side of the competition. After accusing Sam of foul play, Kit discovers that horses don't pose the only danger on the track—Sam's fury has followed Kit back to his Utah ranch, and the man is out for vengeance. His agenda is to destroy Kit's...
Publisher
Orice Museum of Speed
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
David Abbott Jenkins is out to break every existing endurance land speed record, seventy years later many of his records still stand today. Ab's son Marv restores the 12-cylinder "Mormon Meteor" to its glory days for ceremonial laps on the salt.
6) Trial run
Author
Language
English
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A former British steeplechase rider becomes involved in a dangerous situation when he goes to Moscow to help a member of the Royal Family ride in Olympic competition.
7) Comeback
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Series
Language
English
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A young British diplomat's return to England revives long-buried childhood memories that could be the key to saving innocent people from destruction.
8) Nascar
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This groundbreaking IMAX 3D film is set against America's most popular spectator sport and was shown exclusively at IMAX theatres in spring 2004.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track.
10) Planes
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Dusty is a cropdusting plane with dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer. But Dusty's not exactly built for racing, and he happens to be afraid of heights. So he turns to a seasoned naval aviator, who helps Dusty qualify to take on the defending champ of the race circuit. Dusty's courage is put to the ultimate test.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
12) Metro girl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A spectacular new novel, complete with high stakes, hot nights, murder and graft—not to mention car chases, car races, car explosions, and car—well, you get the idea
Alexandra Barnaby got the brains in her family. The little gray cells certainly bypassed Barney's younger brother, Wild Bill. Now Bill's missing, so Barney is dispatched to Florida in the middle of summer with the bugs and the heat and the bad-hair-day humidity.
...13) Bonecrack
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Language
English
Description
A New York Times–bestselling mystery author is “at the top of his form” in this suspense novel about a horse racing family threatened with murder.
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
In the middle of the night, two masked men break into Neil Griffon’s home and abduct him. He quickly discovers...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
In the middle of the night, two masked men break into Neil Griffon’s home and abduct him. He quickly discovers...
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, 2005
Language
English
Description
Go behind the scenes and into the action... Filmed on location in sunny Southern California and Laughlin Nevada, Behind the Monsters combines car-crushing freestyle Monster Truck action and heart-stopping side-by-side Chicago Style racing. Take an entertaining journey behind the arena wall and into the rarely seen world of the people the crowds love to see at the wheel!
15) Stone Fox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
1960
Edition
First Aladdin paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A story, based on real events, about a boy and a half-Arabian mare who enter the Palio, an annual race in Siena, Italy, with all the pageantry of a medieval contest.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of the first American to win the Grand Prix championship in 1961, Phil Hill, a mechanic from California who jockeyed for the top spot against German count Wolfgang Von Trips and Enzo Ferrari of the Ferrari racing empire.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
19) Arctic freeze
Author
Series
Race the wild volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As the four members of Team Red begin the third stage of the race in Alaska, Dev must learn to focus and trust his instincts if he is going to help his team pull out a victory.
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