[Blindtlk] Downloadable DAISY books about car racing and driving from RFB&D
Annemarie Cooke
aec732 at msn.com
Fri Jan 28 02:42:51 UTC 2011
Dear NFB Community:
On the eve of the exciting Blind Driver Challenge, perhaps you are
thinking more about racing cars and driving. Whether you're heading
to Daytona, you may be interested in reading some of these DAISY
downloadable audio books from RFB&D! Included is the biography of
the first African American NASCAR driver. Remember, individual RFB&D
memberships are free if you haven't yet signed up.
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Enjoy!
Annemarie Cooke
Adult Nonfiction
Book Number JP328
Personal Name DONOVAN, BRIAN
Title HARD DRIVING : THE WENDELL SCOTT STORY : THE AMERICAN ODYSSEY
OF NASCAR'S FIRST BLACK DRIVER
Published STEERFORTH PRESS 2008
Phys. Descript. 1 sound disc :
ISBN 9781586421441
Adult Fiction
Book Number HY666
Personal Name McCrumb, Sharyn, 1948-
Title St. Dale [sound recording] / Sharyn McCrumb.
Published Kensington Books [2006], c2005
Phys. Descript. 1 sound disc :
ISBN 0758207778
ISBN 9780758207777
Summary The Dale Ernhardt Memorial Pilgrimage is the last trip Judge
Bekasu Holifield would have chosen for her vacation. but this year it's her
sister Justine's turn to make their plans, and soon Bekasu's
boarding a silver
cruise bus for a tour of Southern stock car speed ways with Justine, their
cousin Cayle, and a group of strangers -- all of whose lives have
somehow been
touched by the legendary racer they never met.
Subject (Name) Earnhardt, Dale, 1951-2001 -- Influence -- Fiction.
Subject Fans (Persons) -- Fiction.
Subject Stock car drivers -- Fiction.
Subject Stock car racing -- Fiction.
Juvenile Fiction
Book Number JZ064
Personal Name Wight, Eric
Title Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000 / Eric Wight
Published Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers 2010
Phys. Descript. 1 sound disc :
ISBN 1416964851
ISBN 9781416964858
Grade/Level [Grades 1-5]
Summary Fourth-grader Frankie Piccolini's vivid imagination does not
help him advance in rank with the rest of his Possum Scout troop, but winning
the Pine Run 3000 model car race would give him the points he needs.
Subject Racing -- Juvenile fiction
Book Number HP287
Personal Name Peck, Richard, 1934-
Title Here lies the librarian [sound recording] / Richard Peck.
Published Dial Books c2006
Phys. Descript. 1 sound disc :
ISBN 0803730802
ISBN 9780803730809
Grade/Level [Grades 5-11].
Summary Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and
automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the
1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century.
Subject Automobiles -- Juvenile fiction.
Subject Automobile racing -- Juvenile fiction.
Book Number JX109
Personal Name Weaver, Will.
Title Saturday night dirt [sound recording] / by Will Weaver.
Edition 1st Square 1st ed.
Published Square Fish 2009, c2008
Phys. Descript. 1 sound disc :
ISBN 9780312561314
ISBN 0312561318
Grade/Level [Grades 7-12].
Summary In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated
Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable Headwaters
Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the
participants on and off the track.
Subject Automobile racing -- Juvenile fiction.
Subject Stock car racing -- Juvenile fiction.
Juvenile Nonfiction
Book Number JR954
Personal Name Kulling, Monica.
Title Eat my dust! [sound recording] : Henry Ford's first race / by
Monica Kulling ; illustrated by Richard Walz.
Edition 1st ed.
Published Random House c2004
Phys. Descript. 1 sound disc :
ISBN 0375815104
ISBN 9780375815102
Series Title Step into reading. Step 3
Series Title Step into reading. Step 3 book.
Grade/Level [Grades 1-3].
Summary Relates the excitement caused by Henry Ford as he drove the
"horseless carriage" he built, particularly when he decided to win a race to
get money to build a new car that anyone could afford.
Subject (Name) Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 -- Juvenile literature.
Subject Automobile engineers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile
literature.
Subject Automobiles, Racing -- Juvenile literature.
Subject Industrialists -- Juvenile literature.
Subject Automobile industry and trade -- Biography -- Juvenile
literature.
Book Number HP917
Personal Name Smith, Timothy C.
Title Crashproof your kids [sound recording] : make your teen a
safer, smarter driver / Timothy C. Smith.
Published Simon & Schuster c2006
ISBN 0743277112
ISBN 9780743277112
Book Number JP271
Personal Name Crabb, Owen
Title Drive right / Owen Crabb, Randall R. Thiel, Frederik R.
Mottola, Elizabeth A. Weaver
Edition 11th ed
Published Pearson 2010
Grade/Level Grades 10-12
ISBN 0133612600
ISBN 9780133612608
Book Number HR668
Personal Name Peli, Eli.
Title Driving with confidence [sound recording] : a practical guide
to driving with low vision / Eli Peli, Doron Peli.
Published World Scientific c2002
ISBN 9810247044
Book Number HM227
Title License to drive [sound recording] / ASD.
Edition 2nd ed.
Published Thomson/Delmar Learning c2007
ISBN 1401879780
Book Number HJ088
Title Responsible driving [sound recording] / [consulting authors,
John W. Palmer ... et al.].
Published McGraw-Hill/Glencoe c2006
Grade/Level Grades 9-12.
ISBN 0078678145
Book Number HY165
Personal Name Kimball, Richard S.
Title Things to know about cars and driving [sound recording] / by
Richard S. Kimball.
Published J. Weston Walch c1998
Grade/Level Grades 9-12. RL: 4.
ISBN 0825138280
ISBN 9780825138287
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