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Author
Publisher
Liveright
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
The untold, almost unbelievable, story of the daring pilots who risked their lives in an unprecedented air race in 1919—and put American aviation on the map.
Years before Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competing in the sensational transcontinental air race of 1919. The contest...Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre"--
4) Racing cars
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
7) Wolf by wolf
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first book in a duology about an alternate version of 1956 where the Axis powers won WWII, and hold an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents to commemorate their victory"--
11) Paperboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
12) Sankofa: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
13) Circle of death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 2088, the world is in chaos as a powerful weapon, Command, is unleashed and Lamont Cranston, also known as The Shadow, and his small group of allies must race to stop the end of the world.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
This much anticipated seventh book in the best-selling series finds Jack, Quint, June and Dirk continuing their journey with new friends, new stakes and a new ride.
18) Homing pigeons
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1949
Language
English
Description
A beginning handbook on raising homing pigeons, which covers lofts, feed, health, breeding, training, flying, racing, and showing.
Author
Series
Humphrey's tiny tales volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Mandy, one of the students from classroom 26, brings a special hamster-sized racecar to class, it means just one thing--Humphrey is going to be in a hamster race"--
20) Driving force
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A dead hitchhiker, empty canisters found at the bottom of several trucks, and the murder of a harmless mechanic are the bizarre events that lead ex-jockey Freddie Croft to suspect that his transport company, Driving Force, is involved in drug smuggling, or something far worse.
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