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1) Born to trot
Author
Series
Marguerite Henry horseshoe library volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As he learns about the famous Hambletonian, sire of the American trotter, young Gib White dreams of some day having his own filly become a champion trotter.
2) Wild horses
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Once a blacksmith, now famous and respected as a newspaperman, Valentine Clark knows everyone who is anyone in the racing world. Aged, confused, blind and dying, he harbors a daunting secret that he is desperate to be rid of.
3) Man o' War
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the American race horse who won twenty of twenty-one races, told by a stable boy who grew up with the great horse.
4) Black Gold
Author
Series
Marguerite Henry horseshoe library volume 007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
No one thinks much of Black Gold because he is so small. But Jaydee sees something special in his eyes. He knows that Black Gold would be a winner if only he were the horse’s rider! Finally, Jaydee gets his wish, and Black Gold grows strong and fast under his careful hands. Soon it will be time for the most important race in America. Do they have what it takes to win? Black Gold’s inspirational story proves that the power of love and dedication...
5) Motor mouth
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
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....
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
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In order to raise money to rebuild a one-hundred-thousand-dollar barn, destroyed by fire, Alec returns to racing the Black.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A boy is entrusted to attend the birth, train, and drive a blood bay colt that is the great hope of an aging reinsman who refuses to be reconciled to the fact that sulky-racing has moved from the county fair to the big night time, moneymaking raceways.
10) Horse heaven
Author
Language
English
Description
"Haunting, exquisite Rosalind Maybrick, wife of a billionaire owner, one day can't quite decide what it is she wants, and discovers too late that her whole life is transformed . . . Twenty-year-old Tiffany Morse, stuck in her job at Wal-Mart, prays, "Please make something happen here . . . This time, I mean it," and something does . . ." "Farley, a good trainer in a bad slump; Buddy, a ruthless trainer who can't seem to lose even though he knows that...
11) Dino-racing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text follow dinosaurs as they race against each other in dragsters, then off-road vehicles, and finally stock cars.
12) Jeff Gordon
Author
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the race car driver who, at the age of twenty-seven, has captured three NASCAR Winston Cup titles.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seabiscuit was an unlikely champion. He was a rough-hewn, undersized horse with a sad little tail and knees that wouldn't straighten all the way. At a gallop, he jabbed one foreleg sideways, as if he were swatting flies. For two years, he fought his trainers and floundered at the lowest level of racing, misunderstood and mishandled, before his dormant talent was discovered by three men.
One was Red Pollard, a failed prizefighter and failing jockey...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
A comic novel of three young men who "borrow" an automobile for a hilarious journey in Memphis. Wild humor and frenetic action do not, however, obscure the development of moving and tender human relationships and moral insights into human conduct.
15) To the hilt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The "hilt" of Francis's delightful 35th thriller refers to the jewel-encrusted, solid gold handle of the ceremonial sword of Scotland's would-be king, Bonnie Prince Charlie. A descendant of the Scottish earl to whom the prince gave the hilt, narrator Alexander Kinloch lives in an unelectrified bothy in the Scottish mountains, supporting himself through his paintings. Al's keen visual sense allows him to draw the faces of the four thugs who beat him...
16) Comeback
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When globe-hopping British ambassador Peter Darwin decides to determine why a vet friend has had too many "patients" die, he is caught in a web.
17) The edge
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Language
English
Description
Tor Kelsey, an undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, is assigned to protect guests on "The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train," individuals whose safety is imperiled by real-life murder and mayhem.
19) Race car
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Photographic examination of race cars like the Formula I, dragster, and other speed vehicles, with facts about how they work and what they do.
20) Dirt bike racer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ron Baker finds a minibike while scuba diving and, with the help of a former motorcycle rider and racer, restores the bike and enters competition.